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below. The head has now a pale inverted V-shaped mark. Length 

 at end of third age 19 mm. Spun up 16th May ; moulted 19th May. 

 Fourth Age. Is very like third in general appearance and is shown 

 half grown in this age in sketch the length when 43 days old being 

 about 38 mm. The head has now a pale upper lip as well as the pale V 

 mark. It is a pity the unsuitableness of the food showed itself by them 

 going off one by one. I hope one day to complete the life history. 



I have here [exhibited] some specimens of the various stages of Caligula 

 cachara which Mr. Watson has sent for exhibition at this Meeting. Mr. 

 Watson has made a special Study of silk-moths for many years and pro- 

 bably knows more of them than anybody else. We are much indebted 

 to him for sending this paper on the early stages of gne of our Indian 

 species. 



48.— LIFE-HISTORIES OF INDIAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



Bij T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Imperial 

 Entomologist. 



(Abstract.*) 

 This abstract gives little more than a list of names of Species with 

 their food plants so far as is known but it will perhaps serve to indicate 

 what is kno\^^^ and the numerous gaps in our knowledge. 



Pterophorid^. 

 Diacrotricha fasciola, Zell. — Known from Ceylon and Pusa. Larva in 



flowers of Averrhoa bilimbi and A^carambola. 

 Buckleria ])aludicola , Fletcher. — Ceylon and Khasis. Larva oir Drosera 



burmanni. 

 Buckleria xerodes, Meyr. — Cejdon to Nagpur. Larva on Gynandropsis, 

 Buckleria defectalis, Wlk. — Throughout Plains. Larva on Boerhaavia. 

 Buckleria wahlbergi, Zell. — Throughout India and Ceylon. Larva on 



Oxalis sp. 

 Sphenarches caffer, Zell. — Throughout India, Burma, Ceylon. Larva 



on Cajanus indicus, Dolichos iablab, Lagenaria vulgaris, Liijfa sp.. 



Hibiscus mvtabilis, Averrhoa bilimbi, Biophyium sensitivum and 



Mimosa pudica. 

 Oxyptihis lactucce, Fletcher.^Dehra Dun. Larva on lettuce. 



* The original intention was to publish this paper in extenso in these Proceeding* 

 but it has run to such a length that it is considered desirable to publish an abstract only 

 and to issue the complete paper elsewhere. 



