this moth is given as Nilgiris, Ceylon, Borneo, Fiji. It evi- 

 deiitlj reached Hawaii from the latter place. 



In October, 1907, I caught in my house at Ivaimuki a 

 female of this moth, which deposited eggs during the night, 

 and I was enabled to make complete observations on the life his- 

 tory. The eggs were not laid in a mass or cluster, but scattered 

 around singly, or two or three together on the surface of leaves ; 

 in several places, 5, 7 and 8 respectively, were nearly in rows 

 on the surface of grass leaves ; there were also eggs on the cloth 

 covering the jar in which she was retained ; in one place, 9 were 

 closely clustered together. There were- 216 eggs in all. The 

 moth died the 4th day. 



The egg is hemispherical, having the flattened surface next 

 to the leaf; ribbed meridionally with about 30 ribs, 10 of which 

 reach the upper pole ; slight cross ridges between the ribs ; at the 

 upper pole an irregiTlar patch of reddish color, an irregular ring 

 of the same color at about 1-3 the distance from pole to base 

 of egg, remainder of egg pale green, w^hen first laid, entirely 

 pale green, tbe reddish markings appearing soon after. Eggs 

 hatched in 5 days. 



Larva: 1st stage — about 2mm. long when first hatched; dull 

 whitish, head black ; cervical shield and tubercles nearly black. 

 The hairs in tubercles quite prominent, dark. They crawl by 

 a looping motion, using of the prolegs, only the anal and those 

 on segment 10^ the other prolegs are rudimentary. They eat 

 off the surface of leaves, leaving one epidermis. 



2nd stage — about 4mm. long, pale mottled reddish green, 

 with a dorsal and on each side a subdorsal stripe, paler, 

 head very pale luteous, eyes black ; tubercles small, with a tiny 

 blackish dot at base of hairs ; hairs pale, shorter than in first 

 stage. They now use abdominal prolegs of segments 9 and 10 

 (others rudimentary) and still crawl by a looping motion. 

 They now eat holes thru the tender leaves ; but in older leaves, 

 leave one epidermis. 



3rd stage — about 6-8mm. long ; very much mottled with green- 

 ish, blackish and some times a faint reddish tinge ; a dorsal 

 whitish line on each side, darker along ventral side; segment 

 12 slightly swollen, two whitish spots on dorsal side; segment 

 6 also has two white spots on dorsal side each in a subdorsal 

 line; tubercles white; hairs very short; head slightly fuscous 



