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colour, but a purple line runs through them transversely 

 and every wing has, as it were, in its middle a window- 

 like eye, which is surrounded by a purple circle, and, as it 

 were, of the transparency of glass." 



The larvse, when fully grown, are about four inches in 

 length; they have twelve joints or articulations, besides 

 their extremities ; their colour is green, resembling the 

 leaves on which they feed; and they are marked with 

 reddish spots and a reddish -yellow band running length- 

 ways. They feed on the following plants : — 



Rhizophora calceolaris (Linn.). 



Terminalia cdata glabra (Assum tree). 



Terminalia tomentosa (the saj tree). 



Terminalia catappa (country almond tree). 



Tectona grandis (teak tree). 



Zizyphus jujuba (bertree). 



Shorea robusta (sal tree). 



Bombax heptaphyllum (Semul). 



Careya sphairica. 



Penta r ptera tomentosa. 



Pentaptera glabra. 



Ricinus communis (castor-oil plant). 



Cassia lanceolata. 



Lagerstrwmia Inclica, vern. Daiyeti. 



Garissa Carandas, „ Karinda. 



Terminalia arjuna „ Sadara. 



Ficus JBenjaminia „ Nandruk. 



Major Coussmaker remarks : — 



" The Daiyeti (Lagerstrcemia Indica) is a most pro- 

 mising plant for feeding the Tusser worm, as the harder 

 it is cut back and eaten off by the worms the more 

 luxuriantly it throws up shoots, especially when watered 

 liberally ; these shoots are clothed with leaves the whole 

 way up, and the caterpillars greedily devour every bit of 

 leaf, and even the more succulent parts of the shoots. 

 I have not been able to raise this plant from seed, but 

 find that the roots have excessive vitality. 



" The Bher {Zizyphus jujuba) is the tree on which, in 

 the Deccan, the greatest number of cocoons are found. It 

 grows very thickly, but only from seed, as far as my 

 experience goes. The leaves are rather sparsely distributed, 

 and the growth is very straggling. The caterpillars eat up 

 every leaf, and also devour the flowers. The Karinda 

 {Garissa Garandas) is more leafy than the Bher, and the 

 caterpillars also eat it off very closely, but it recovers leaves 



