MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 241 



No. XX. -THE EARLY STAGES OF THE MOTH RHODOPRASINA 



FLORA LIS. 



( With a Plate.) 



.Ambulyx floralis, Butler. Trans. Zool. Soc., Lond., IX, p. G39, (1877). 



'Cypafioralis, Hampson, I.e., p. 72, n. 9(5. (1892), Dudgeon, Jouvn., Bombay 

 N. H. Soc, XI, p. 407, n. 9G. (1898). 



Rhodqprasina floralis, Rothschild, 1. c, p. 293, (1903). 



Habitat.— Sikhim. 



Elevation (vertical range.)— 7,000 to 10,000 feet. 



Time of appearance. — April and May. 



Occurrence. — Very rare. 



Larva green, covered with whitish coloured granules, a darker green stripe 

 <on the dorsal surface together with a series of short orange coloured spines 

 from the head to the horn, on segments 1-4 is a sub-dorsal yellowish streak, 

 a small white spot on 4th segment edged with black and with a disc of yellow 

 near it, oblique lateral violet stripes edged with pale greenish-yellow below on 

 segments 4 to 11 ; anal flap covered with orange coloured spines, a white 

 streak on each side of head which is green, triangular and produced upwards 

 torn long, nearly straight, rough, green with the tip black, legs and claspers 

 pale yellow. 



Length. — 80 mm. 



Time of appearance. — July and August. 



Food Plants. — Ace?' campbeUU (Maple). 



Pupa cylindrical, deep reddish-brown with a purplish suffusion, the antenna?, 

 tongue, legs and wings being tightly compressed into the anterior part of the 

 •case. The surface is slightly granulated. Cremaster stout, with a lump on 

 the dorsal surface. 



Length. — $ 54 mm. 9 60 mm. 



Time of pupation. — August to April. 



Situation. — Subterranean at roots of Maple. 



C. E. F. MANSON. 



Rangoon. 



No. XXI— OCCURRENCE OF THE MOTH DUDGEON A LFUCOS- 



TICTA IN CEYLON. 



I am unaware if you keep a record of specimens from new localities. In 

 case you do, I am writing to let you know I caught a specimen of Dudgeona 

 leucosticta (656A) figured in Vol. XIII, No. 2, page 227. 



My capture was in April this year at this place, about 4,000 feet, 



W. VAUGHAN, F.E.S. 



-CoCOGALLA, MADULSIMA, 



Ceylon, 12th December 1905. 

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