T R A N S A C T I O N S 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
OF 
LONDON. 
I. Some Account of the Habits of an East Indian Species 
of Butterfly , belonging to the Genus Thecla. By J. O. 
Westwood, F. L. S. Sec. E. S., Spc. 
[Read February 2, 1835.] 
(Plate I.) 
The transformations of the species of hair-streak butterfly 
forming the subject of the following notice have been traced by 
Mr. Charles King of Madras, to whom and to Mr. Stuchbury, I 
am indebted for an opportunity of laying the details thereof before 
this Society. 
This butterfly resides in the larva state in the interior of the 
pomegranate, seven or eight, at least, having been reared in the 
interior of the small fruit now exhibited. Of the mode in which 
the eggs are deposited by the female in the interior of the pome- 
granate no information has been received ; it is, however, probable 
that this is effected whilst the fruit is in its very young state. The 
caterpillars feed upon the seeds and inner part of the fruit, which 
is thus rendered weak, and unable to support its own weight, and 
consequently liable to have its stem broken, and to fall to the 
ground with the first wind. This, however, would be destruction 
to the inclosed insects, since, in all probability, they would find it 
impossible to make their escape were the fruit to be suffered to lay 
rotting upon the ground. To obviate this evil, the caterpillars, 
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