412 Timehri. 
whose caterpillar lives on Passifloras, lay an egg on a dry blade of para- 
grass, another on the flowering head of another. grass, while a third was ~ 
placed on the food-plant, m this case the wild semitou, Passiflora hemi~ 
aycla. The caterpillars of Anartia jatrophe feed on many roots (Ruellia 
twberosa) and on Beloperone, a closely allied plant, but [ have seen the 
butterfly lay her eggs not only on the undersurface of the leaves of these 
plants, but beneath dry sticks and other withered vegetable material. 
As examples of moths which do not always deposit their egos on the 
food-plant or food-plants of their caterpillars, mention may be made of 
the Noctuids Laphygma fr ugiperdu, Lycophotia imfecta, and of the 
Arctiid Ecpantheria er idanus. The food-plants of the caterpillars of the 
two first-named are various kinds of grasses, but the eggs are often 
deposited on vines and bushes, the caterpillars on hatching, either drop- 
ping or crawling down to the grass below, or allowing themselves to be 
blown about by the wind, ey entually, of course, finding their way to grass 
of some sort or other. Ec pa ntheria eridanus, w hose caterpillars ‘most 
usually feed on the mucea-mucea (Montrichardia arborescens), deposits her 
eggs on other plants as well. Both this moth and Laphyynua frugiperda 
frequently deposit their eggs in big clusters of several hundreds, often in 
two layers one upon another. In the case of Laphygma frugiperda, the 
mother insect very frequently lightly covers over the egg-cluster with 
fluff. from her own body. 
Other butterflies and moths the egg-laying habits of which I have 
studied under nature include the following :— 
Name. Family. Lood-plant, 
Buptoveta hegesras Nymphalide Sida Sp. 
Ageronia feronia i Tragia volubilis, of vine-nettle. 
Colenis dido <4 Passitloras 
Agraulis vanille. 5h 9 
TTeliconius melpomene - * 
Danaus eresimus 5 Climbing Asclepiad 
Eurema (2 species) Pieride Shamebush (Mimosa sp.) 
Chilades hanno Lycenide Bschynomine sensitiva ? 
Papilio androgeus Papilionide Lime and orange. 
Pyrrhopyge amyclas Hesperiidex Guava, Indian almond, «ke. 
Anceryx alope Sphingide Papaw. 
Tsognathus carice 3 Allamanda. 
Dilophonota ello - Cassava, Hevea, climbing Ascle- 
piad, 
Protoparce cingulata t Sweet and wild potato. 
Protoparce paplhus “3 Tomato, peppers, &e. 
Luthisanotia timais Noctuide Lily. 
Megalopyge lanata Megalopygide Guava, mango, and other trees. 
Sibine trimacula Limacodide Castor oil, and over a dozen other 
plants, both exogens and endo- 
gens, 
Antichloris eriphia Syntomidee Banana, plantain, 
