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and not furnished interiorly with a soft silken bed, the chrysalis 
lying within a hard and hollow chamber. 
The chrysalis remained thus until the 14th August, when the 
one which had turned on the 17th July produced a perfect female, 
after a period of twenty-nine days. Another, which had turned on 
the 19th July, came forth a male on the 16th August, showing the 
time to be pretty uniform. A large caterpillar however, which I 
found in the forest on the 16th July, turned to a chrysalis on the 
24th of that month, but instead of coming forth in the autumn, it 
remained in the chrysalis state throughout the winter, as did some 
others ; coming out in the following summer, namely, on the 11th, 
14th, and 18th of June. 
There would consequently appear to be great irregularity in the 
time of coming forth from the pupa state, and this at first led me 
to consider the insect double brooded. On farther consideration, 
however, I am inclined to abandon that opinion. 
The eggs deposited by the specimens procured on the 13th and 
28th of April produced perfect insects in the middle of August ; 
but had these been permitted in their turn to deposit eggs, no 
caterpillar would have been hatched from them until the following 
spring or summer months. It was probably from such ova that 
the caterpillars procured in the forest on the 30th June and 16th 
July had been produced, while the moths captured in the middle 
of April had come forth from pupz which had survived through 
the winter in that state; the species is thus seen to be only single 
brooded, although the larve are found throughout the year. 
The caterpillar feeds upon several trees common on these hills, 
and among others the walnut has been mentioned to me. The 
most common food appears to be the Munsooree, a shrub which is 
so common as to have given rise, I believe, to the name of this 
settlement, viz. “ Munsoory,” or more commonly among Euro- 
peans, “ Mussooree.” I do not know the botanical name of this 
shrub, but doubtless both Dr. Royle and Falconer will make you 
acquainted with it. 
Note.—Capt. Hutton proceeds to notice the rnode by which it 
appeared to him that the moth makes its escape from the cocoon, 
as noticed in the Journal of Proceedings of the 6th May, 1844, 
which it has not however been considered advisable to publish 
further in detail, until fresh observations promised by the author 
have been received. 
