NOTES. 167 
During the progression of the insect they are kept im constant 
movement, being raised and lowered consecutively, simulating the 
action of the legs of a Scolopendra, but at a much lower speed. 
While at rest both the head and the posterior extremity are elevated, 
and the latter is frequently jerked from side to side in a minatory 
manner. On closer examination it is seen that the posterior 
extremity simulates a second head. There is a pair of prominent 
black chitinous spots on the dorsum of the terminal segment which 
might readily be mistaken for eyes, and the spatulate hairs are 
suggestive of an arrangement of antenne and palpi. Even the 
terminal claspers lend to the deception, for they occupy the position 
of a pair of mandibles, and are held distended, as though ready for 
action (see fig. 8b), 
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Fic. 8a. Fie. 86. 

This caterpillar pupated in a tightly rolled section of the leaf upon 
which it had been feeding. It had fed up on Terminalia catappa, 
which happened to be the first food plant with which it was presented. 
The moth, which proved to be Homodes fulva, was disclosed on 
December 20. 
The fully-grown caterpillar measures 14 inches in length. It is of 
a brownish-green colour, with inconspicuous maculations of a darker 
shade. Head reddish-brown. ‘The first pair of abdominal claspers 
are small and practically obsolete, the others normal. The second 
segment carries ten long spatulate hairs directed forwards. There 
are two similar hairs on each side of the third and fourth segments. 
A single spatulate hair springs from each side of the fifth to the 
eleventh segments. The twelfth has a pair on each side, and the 
terminal segment has six of these hairs directed backwards, with 
@ prominent black chitinous spot at the base of the outer hair on 
each side. 
E. ERNEST GREEN. 
