THE EARLIER STAGES OF PERONEA MACCANA, TR. 271 



Celama ciirvdinea, sp. n. 



cJ . Head and thorax white, mixed with pale brown ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, whitish towards thorax. Eore wings white, marked with 

 pale brown at base, chiefly on costal area ; antemediai line black, 

 edged with pale brown on the costa, slightly incurved ; postmedial 

 line dark brown, flecked with black, irregular, double, preceded on 

 the costa by a brown spot, subterminal line dark brown, flecked with 

 black ; terminal line pale brown. Hind wings whitish, powdered 

 with fuscous, especially on terminal area. Underside white, neuration 

 of fore wings fuscous, costal area of hind wings sprinkled with fuscous 



Expanse, 15 mm. 



Taken on May 25th, 1914, at Kolambugan, subprov. Lanao, 

 Mindanao (sea-level). 



Comes near C. tumuli/em, Hampson, from Ceylon. 



THE EARLIER STAGES OF PERONEA MACCANA, Tr., 



P. LIPSIANA, ScHtFF, P. RUFANA, Schiff, and 



P. SCHALLERIANA, L. 



By W. G. Sheldon, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



{Concluded from p. 255.) 



P. rufana, Schiff. 



During the last week in -July, when almost all of the 

 P. maccana larvae had disappeared, those of P. rufana began to 

 be fairly common on M. gale, and a few were found on sallow 

 also. These larvae, so far as my experience went, were very 

 local, for I could only find them in the vicinity of Camghouran 

 Burn, although I searched M. gale in many other snots. 



The following is a description of a full-grown larva which I 

 made on July 29th : 15 mm. long, of average stoutness, tapering 

 to each extremity; head blackish-brown with black blotches; 

 prothoracic plate black ; in the spiracular region of the prothorax 

 is a glabrous black spot on each side. Both head and prothorax 

 are highly glabrous ; anal plate light green and glabrous ; the 

 segments at the rear of the prothorax are in the dorsal area dull 

 smoky-green, and in the ventral portions and the claspers a paler 

 shade of the same tint ; the prolegs and feet are black and shining; 

 the tubercles and spiracles are inconspicuous. The larva spins 

 together shoots of M. gale and lives within the chamber thus 

 formed ; it is very similar in all the iustars, the only difference 

 that I noticed being that the head of the small larva is jet black. 



Pupa.— The pupa is very similar to that of P. lipsiana 

 previously described, and agrees with it in all respects, so far 

 as I can see, with the exception that the wing-cases are smooth 

 and not striated; they reach to the centre only of the fifth 

 abdominal segment and not to the rear of it ; the abdominal 



