226 Mr. J. Guppy's Notes on the habits and 



Larva. Semi-transparent like Mechanitis veritahilis when newly 

 hatched, changing later to a shining transparent bottle-green with 

 a greenish-white head. When mature sometimes more or less 

 translucent greenish, paler or clearer but without any definite 

 markings save a dorsal stripe caused by the food showing through 

 the skin. 



When at rest the larva invariably assumes a coiled-up attitude 

 with the head bent round to touch the body. Feeding takes place 

 from the under-side of the leaf and the larva is sluggish. The 

 period from hatching to pupating is about nine days.* 



Protogoni'us ochraccus, Butl. (PJ. XVII, figs. 3, 3a.) 



The egg is laid on the imder-side of a leaf singly, and 

 I noticed the female depositing at 9.30 A.M. near a stream. 

 It is smooth, shining, and translucent, and is faintly 

 tinted green. The micropyle is situated in a basin-like 

 depression at the top. 



Galigo saltus, Kaye. (PI. XVII, figs. 1 — If.) 



The larva of Galigo ilioncus (1. c. saltus, n. sp.), feeds on 

 banana. The larva is shown in all its stages except after 

 the 8rd month.-j- 



Opsiphanes cassiie, Linn. (PI. XVII, figs. 2 — 2&.) 



The larva is shown after 1st and 2nd month and when 

 full grown. The full-fed larva is sometimes rather 

 greener than shown. J 



Theope eudocia, Hew. (PI. XVIII, figs. 1, la.) 



Larva. Head small, prominent, black and shining with a whitish 

 inverted V-mark. Alidomen light green with a yellowish tinge, 

 1st segment with two remarkable bunches of club-shaped black and 



* It is unfortunate that Mr. Guppy is unable to say definitely 

 whether nine days was the actual larval existence of this species. 

 If that were true the complete metamorphoses would only take 

 probably three weeks or less. It is (juite possible for an Ithomiine 

 to do this, as Mr. F. W. Urich has frequently told me that 

 Mechanitis veritahilis goes through all its stages in a month. The 

 Ithomimse. are doubtless amongst the most rapid breeders of the 

 Lepidoptera, and hence to a great extent their prodigious numbers. — 

 W. J. K. 



t Mr. Gupi^y made a sketch of the larva at this stage and repro- 

 duction was not possible. 



X No food-plant is given. It is probably banana. — W. J. K. 



