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crown ; the surface between the ribs is finely transversely striated. The 

 colour is pearl-white when first laid, and shiny, becoming later on a fine 

 orange. 



Larva. — The body is sub-cylindrical, thickest in middle, fining down 

 somewhat to both ends, though very little forwards ; the anal end is 

 produced beyond the anal claspers, shortly bifid, the j^oints thus formed 

 being set with colourless, translucent, conical tvibercles, each bearing a 

 fine hair. Head is round from the front view, slightly narrower than seg- 

 ment :^ when the larva is full grown, rather thick, covered with small, 

 green, shortly cylindrical tubercles, each bearing a fine hair ; yellowish 

 green in colour. The surface of body is, as usual, lined transversely by 

 fine, impressed, parallel lines, about 7 to each segment ; it is covered all 

 over with minute, short, erect, hairs ; the main tubercles represented by 

 small, white spots each bearing a slightly longer, fine hair ; some longer, 

 fine, whitish, sometimes slightly curved hairs along the dorsoventral line 

 beneath spiracles. Spiracles situated above the longitudinal sub-spiracular 

 white line or narrow band, not small for the larva, oval, flush, light in 

 colour. Colour of the body is a rather light yellowish-green, blotched all 

 over closely with light purplish spots with the exception of the head and 

 belly. L : 30 mm ; B : 4 mm. 



Puim. Is of the angulated type of Ilupldna. The head is tucked under 

 segment 2 and has a moderately long snout which is generally only slight- 

 ly curved. It is very similar to that of A. hippo described below. The 

 snout is not so long nor so much curved as in hippo ; the largest lateral 

 teeth, those of segment 7, being broader and equilaterally triangular 

 while those in hippo are narrowed at points, conical, that is, ; segment 2 is 

 not produced backwards into a lateral tongue on each side as in that 

 species, but has instead a small lateral rounded knob. The spiracles of 

 segment 2, hidden by the tongue in hippo, are linear, light and incon- 

 spicuous ; other spiracles are large, oval, flush, of the same colour as 

 the body. Colour is light green, often with a brownish shade, there 

 is a lateral, abdominal row of black spots and a subdorsal row of yellow 

 ones, one spot on each side to each segment ; otherwise the pupa is marked 

 as in hippo. L : 18 mm ; B : 6 mm at shoulders ; at apex of thorax : 6 mm. 



Habits. — The bntterflj^ alwaj^s lays its eggs singly and nearly al- 

 ways on a young shoot or the upper surface of a leaf. The larva 

 eats the shell on emerging, as usual and takes up its quarters im- 

 mediately afterwards along the midrib on a bed of silk spun by 

 itself. It continues this habit all through its life though later on 

 it of course chooses larger leaves. It is sluggish but will wriggle 

 and fall when disturbed, keeping, however, a silk anchored to the 

 place whence it has fallen. The larvee are much subject to parasi- 

 tism, principally from small hymenopterous insects. They eat 

 much and continuously and grow fast. The pupation takes plant 

 after a short wandering and generally somewhere on the foodplate 

 on a leaf or branch, either on the upperside or underside ; the 

 body-string is short and tight, the tail-fixing strong. Like the 

 larva of M'p'po, this larva also often rests with its true legs bunched 

 and the fore part of the body hold in the air. It is, however, often 

 found high up on trees while M'p'po seems to choose much 

 smaller plants whereon to oviposit. The growth is rapid, as said, and 

 from the laying of the egg to the emergence of the imago is 



