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Just below the spiracle are (1) a very short white hair directed forward, (2) a 
short white hair directed backward. The whole body, particularly on the 
dorsal and ventral regions, is thickly covered with minute short black bristly 
hairs. The legs are fairly large and are yellowish in colour ; prolegs rather 
small, greenish yellow. The larva feeds on the flowers and seeds of Sopubia 
trifida. 
“In the case of another larva, the sixth and eleventh segments had a 
round pale spot in the purple dorsal stripe on each side of its central darker 
line. 
“The pupa is long and narrow, of a pale yellowish-green colour with a 
broad purplish-red dorsal stripe ; the usual white hairs are so short that they 
are only just perceptible under a lens. The larval skin is discarded entirely 
and is shrunk up into a minute pellet. The pupa is capable of rapid and 
violent motions in the ventro-dorsal plane, the head being bent backwards 
dorsally until it touches the anal extremity. The pupa is suspended head 
downwards, ventral surface against support ”’(°). 
At Pusa this species has been reared from larve found on Kukraunda 
(Blumea balsanufera) on 18th February 1908. The larve were feeding on the 
green leaves from which they dropped by a thread when disturbed ; the larva 
does not eat the edge of the leaf but nibbles small holes in the upper, 
and occasionally in the lower, surface of the leaf. Its movements are 
sluggish. 
The larva was described as about 8 mm. long and 1:5 mm. broad, cylin- 
drical, tapering posteriorly, yellowish-green ; head green, tinged with yellowish 
or brownish anteriorly, covered with microscopic white hairs ; prothorax 
with two transverse rows of white spinous hairs and with smaller dark secondary 
hairs ; legs greenish-yellow ; abdominal segments distinctly segmented, with 
an irregular interrupted dull yellowish lateral stripe and a deep green dorsal 
stripe, tub-rcles armed with bunches of white spines and black hairs ; spiracles 
small, round, black. 
Pupation takes place on the surface of a leaf, the pupa being very similar 
in colour to the larva. Before pupation the larva applies a long narrow 
network of silken threads to the surface of a leaf and the pupa attaches itseli 
to this by the double set of cremastral hooks. The pupa is about 8 mm. 
long and 1°5 mm. broad across thorax, head depressed, thoracic region pro- 
minent, tapering almost to a point anally ; a few white spiny hairs scattered 
over surface; a brownish dorsal stripe; wing-cases nearly reaching anal 
extremity. One individual, which pupated on 26th February, emerged on 
7th March 1908, (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 652.) 
