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Movements slow and deliberate, spinning a thread as it moves along 
and when it drops. Under the microscope the skin is seen to he 
covered with minute skin-points as if shagreened. 
Ptfjoa.—The pupa is attached to a flower, flower-stalk or stem of 
the food-plant, or more rarely to a leaf of the same, and is usually 
enclosed in a very flimsy cocoon composed of a few silken threads. 
It is possible however that these threads are merely fortuitous, 
having been spun by the larva during its search for a suitable 
pupation-place or whilst preparing its cremastral pad. The pupa 
is about G mm. long, stout, smooth, rounded and blunt at the 
capital extremity. Its usual colour is a pale apple-green, marked 
Fig. 4.—Dent, socotranus. 
with dark- or purplish-red on the dorsal surface, the markings usually 
consisting of (i) a narrow median thoracic stripe broadening 
posteriorly into a transverse bar extending obliquely downwards to 
about the edge of the wing-covers, and (ii) a series of sulnnedian 
patches on the second to fifth abdominal segments forming a more 
or less interrupted longitudinal stripe. Some pupae, however, which 
had pupated in my boxes, were wholly of a dark-grey colour. The 
moth emerges in the early morning. 
Distribution. —As already remarked, the geographical 
range of this species is very wide. Localities known to 
me are :— 
West Africa — Gambia, Bathurst, 1885-87 {Carter^ 
[Wlsm. Coll., four]. 
South-East Africa —Delat^oa Bay, 1884 (Druce) [Wlsm. 
Coll., three]. 
East Africa —Ibea, Ukambani, Dec.-Jan. 1889 {Jackson) 
[Wlsm. Coll., No. 6330, one J > fyp® jacksoni, 
Wlsm. MS.]. 
SoKOTRA —Western Sokotra, Jan. 11, 1890 {Simony) 
[Vienna Mus., ^ and ^ types oi socotranus, Rbl.]. 
India —Ganjam, Aug. 1882 {Minchin) [Wlsm. Coll., one]; 
Bombay, Surat {Lcfroy) [Meyrick Coll.]. 
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