412 Mr. Forsayeth on the life-history of 



Head superior. Attached to cocoon by apical spines 

 (PI. XIV., fig. 9 a). 



Imago has a stout body, with crested thorax. General 

 colour brown, with wavy marks on wings. The anterior 

 legs are so thickly covered with hair, on tibife and upper 

 tarsi, that I could not make out the spines, but I fancied 

 that there were two weak ones at extremity of tibia. 

 Maxilla well developed ; labial palpi appear to have the 

 two last joints about equal in size. Antennae filiform. 



Homoptera continua, Walk. (PI. XV., fig. 9). 

 Mhow, September 14th, 1881. 



Larva found on a small thorny shrub. General ground 

 colour green ; whitish along the dorsum. A j^ellow line 

 divides each eye into two portions ; a yellow line, on 

 which are blue puncta, runs along the lateral margins 

 of body. Legs : pectoral, six ; ventral first pair obso- 

 lete, second pair rudimentary, third and fourth normal ; 

 anal legs, two. Semi-looping. 



Pupa made in a leafy case, lined with spiders' web- 

 like silk. The pupa is attached inside cocoon by the 

 apical spines, and is covered with a white efflorescence. 



I bred two imagines. General colour dark brown ; 

 one with plain wings, the second with two white trans- 

 verse, carpet-pattern-like, bands across the upper wings, 

 and a crested thorax. 



Figure of larva on Plate XV., fig. 9. 



HYPOGEAMMID^. 

 Erchcia divcrsipennis, Walk. 

 Mhow, September 24th, 1881. 



Larva found on grass. General colour a pale soft 

 grey on superior surface ; abdominal surface is of a fine 

 deep pink or lake tint. 



Cocoon made by binding down a leaf on itself, a piece 

 of grass also attached. 



Selepa celtis, Moore (PI. XV., fig. 4). 



Mhow, October 10th, 1881. 



I found on a shrub, called by the natives "Bahera," 

 two curious little brownish larvae. They have their 

 heads surmounted with several exuvias of the heads of 



