390 Mr. Forsayeth on the life-history of 



Chcerocampa Oldenlandice, Fabr. 

 Mhow, July 23rd, 1879. 



Found the larva on a sj^ecies of balsam common in 

 gardens here. They are also found on a plant which 

 grows in damp shady places, with a large palmate 

 7 -divided leaf on a fleshy stem springing from a rhizome. 

 Fruit, soft berries, sessile round stem. The larva has 

 sometimes a green instead of a purplish ground colour. 



The larvae make cocoons on the surface, or partly 

 below ground. One specimen I noted proceeded as 

 follows : — " The larva has made a depression in the earth 

 at one corner of the cage, and has pulled a leaf of the 

 plant on which it was feeding down over it, fastening it 

 with silk, a net of which material loosely woven forms 

 the roof of the cell. On the portion of the net not 

 protected by the leaf are mounted small lumps of earth 

 so as to completely hide the larva underneath. It must 

 have placed these lumps in position after forming the 

 net by pushing them through the interstices from within, 

 as when I first noticed it the larva was inside, and only 

 a few scattered lumps on the outside of the net ; after- 

 wards I found the net quite covered with earth, yet the 

 larva could not have emerged, the network being too 

 closely woven." 



The pupa is very similar to that of Choerocampa celerio, 

 but the peculiar pearly markings are deficient or very 

 dull. 



The periods of some larvae are shown as follows : — 



Larva went into cell. Pupa formed. Imago came out. 



1. July 27th. July 30th ? Night of Aug. 12th. 



2. „ 28th. „ 30th. Morn of Aug. 1 6th. 



3. Aug. 2nd. Aug. 5th. Morn of Aug. 25th. 



4. ,, 2nd. ,, 5th. ? (probably same time). 



5. ,, 22nd. I Devoured by dipterous parasites 



6. „ 22nd. j like " oak-flies." 



7. „ 25th. ? Sept. 16th. 



Daphnis nerii, Linn. 



Mhow, July 24th, 1879. 



Larva found on a species of oleander indigenous here. 

 I also found it on a shrub with a rosaceous flower 

 resembling the orange blossom. General ground colour 



