482 On some new I ndo- Malayan Spliingidae. 



loner and thin, swollen at tlie fifth segment ; horn lonp; and 

 straight, brown with tip black and white. Towards tlie end 

 of this stage an ocellus jippeartd on the .swollen fifth segment, 

 green centre ringed with white and black. 



"After the second moult the head and body were green ; 

 the filth segment nmch swollen and coloured |)iid\, with the 

 ocellus cohiured as l)ef'ore. Horn purple, anal segment and 

 underside pink. After third moult the head was green, and 

 body yellowish green ; the fifth segment still more swollen 

 brick-red, with the ocellus blue in front, reddish behind, the 

 reddish portion dotted with yellow, the whole ringed with 

 white and black. A lateral stripe on third and fourtii 

 segments brick-red ; the dorsal line, the lateral segmental 

 oblique strij)e.s on segments 6-12, and the subdorsal spots al.s<) 

 brick-red. Legs, prolegs, and undersiile brick-red. Horn 

 curved downwards, yellow closely dotted with black. 



" After fourth moult there were two forms, a green and a 

 Lrown. The green form was coloured as follows : — Head and 

 body to filth segment green, remaining segments dorsally 

 white, green laterally and below with dark green strigju. A 

 green dorsal line ; a p;de lateral line, edged above on third 

 and fourth segments with gieen. An ocellus on the swollen 

 fifth segment, dark blue in front, green behind, with two 

 white spots in the green portion, ringed in front with blue, 

 behind with yellow, the whole outwardly ringed with green. 

 A light-coloured waved subdorsal line, and light oblique 

 stripes edged with green on segments 6-12. Legs pink with 

 white bands, prolegs and chispers green. Spiracles ochreous. 

 Horn purj)le and curved down. 



"Length 3i inches = 89 mm. 



"The brown form was marked identically the same, but 

 coloured |)ale and dark brown instead of dark and light green. 



" The pupa was contained in a slight cocoon near the surface 

 of the soil. Head, thorax, and wing-cases dark brown with 

 ])aler markings, the wing-cases having rows of raised black 

 dots. A black circular flattened sheath in front of head. 

 Abdomen brown-pink, with a dark dorsal stripe and dark 

 Btrigai. Spiracles black. 



" Length 4y mm."—/'. D. S. 



7. Cechenena lineosa siihangustata, subsp. n. 



(J. Differs from Iin. lineosa, Walk., in the buff subterminal 

 band on the hind wings being very niiich narrower. 



JIal>. Lebong-Tandai, Benkoelen District, Sumatra, 1D12- 

 19iy (C. J. Brooks)', 1 S ■ 



1 hope later to give detailed accounts of the genitalia and 

 other struct ure.s. 



