T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER i 
of the larva. Movements slow and deliberate, spinning a thread as it moves 
along and when it drops. Under the microscope the skin is seen to be covered 
with minute skin-points as if shagreened ’’(?). 
“The pupa is attached to a flower, flower-stalk or stem of the foodplant, 
or more rarely to a leaf of the same, and is usually enclosed in a very flimsy 
cocoon composed of a few silken threads. It is possible, however, that these 
threads are merely fortuitous, having been spun by the larva during its search 
for a suitable pupation-place or whilst preparing its cremastral pad. The 
pupa is about 6 mm. long, stout, smooth, rounded and blunt at the capital 
extremity. Its usual colour is a pale apple-green, marked with dark or pinkish- 
red on the dorsal surface, the markings usually consisting of (1) a narrow 
median thoracic stripe broadening posteriorly into a transverse bar extending 
obliquely downwards to about the edge of the wing-covers, and (2) a series 
of submedian patches on the second to fifth abdominal segments forming a 
more or less interrupted longitudinal stripe. Some pupe, however, which 
had pupated in my boxes, were wholly of a dark-grey colour. The moth 
emerges in the early morning ’’(”). 
DEUTEROCOPUS PLANETA, MEYR. 
Deuterocopus planeta, Meyr., T. E. 8., 1907, 473-474 (1908)(!); Fletcher, 
T. E. S., 1910, 131-134, f. 5, t. 44 f. 10, t. 45 f. 2 (1910)(?). 
Deuterocopus rubrodactylus (nec Pag.), Fletcher, Spolia Zeylan., VI, 20, t. E 
fo 4 (1909)C): 
This. species ranges from Ceylon, Khasi Hills and Burma to Portuguese 
Timor, Tenimber and New Guinea(?). We have it from the Bababudin Hills 
and Pollibetta (South Coorg). 
“The egg is about 0°44 mm. long by about 0°20 mm. broad; in shape 
it is* ovo-cylindrical, the ends rounded and subequal, the micropylar area 
distinctly depressed ; the surface is very smooth and shining, of a very pale 
orange colour, suffused with red at either pole ”(?). 
The larva feeds on the flowers of Leea sambucina and is “pale green 
without any markings except red suflusion at either extremity. The skin 
is roughened into minute knobs (like shark skin) everywhere, but especially 
on the ventral region. A distinct subsegment is formed on the posterior 
ventral region of abdominal segments. The hairs, except (i), are very short 
and, inconspicuous ; (i) is short, less than breadth of segment, The hairs are 
transparent whitish (glassy) and the tubercles very indistinct. The hairs 
are longest on thoracic and anal regions. The legs are extremely short and 
inconspicuous. There are no secondary hairs, these seeming to he reduced 
