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Larva. — Head large, rounded, slightly higher than broad, ver- 

 milion-red with a broad black band, dilated on vertex into a circle, 

 two black circles down middle of face, one on each cheek, connected 

 by a narrow stem with the central band, and a black band just above 

 the eyes on each side ; jaws black. Body high in the middle and 

 rounded at extremity of last segment ; colour black, with a double 

 thin, blue, dorsal line, a lateral broader yellow line, from which, and at 

 right angles to it, proceed short yellow and blue lines which do not quite 

 reach a broad white double line along the body above the base of the 

 legs ; colour of abdomen bluish- white ; on segment 13 are two vermilion 

 subdorsal spots, one on each side of dorsal line. Length 51 mm. 



Pupa. — Very stout and compact ; colour light flesh-pink, powdered 

 with a white powder excreted by the pupa ; five black spots on front 

 margin of thorax, one spot in centre of segment 2, one on the eye, and 

 an indistinct mark above each spiracle, all black ; spiracles surround- 

 ed by a black line ; cremaster tipped with black ; a dorsal black spot 

 on the last two segments. Length 26 mm. 



Habits. — The egg is laid on the underside of a leaf near the point ; 

 the young larva makes a cell by turning over a small portion on one 

 side of the midrib at the point on to the top of the part on the other 

 side of midrib, eating through the greater part of the midrib, so that 

 the cell part withers and dries ; it coats the inside densely with silk ; 

 this form of cell is adhered to throughout its life. The larva pupates 

 as a general rule in the cell. 



180. Bibasis sena^ Moore. 



This butterfly, the larva of which feeds on the same food-plant as 

 the last (Combretum externum), occurs in much the same localities 

 throughout the district, and is very nearly as rarely met with on the 

 wing. Unlike the last, however, it flies generally in the morning, 

 between 8 and 11 o'clock, and may be caught in small numbers on the 

 tops of the hills above Karwar during the monsoon, where it is its 

 habit to> fly about, backwards and forwards, with a quick, darting 

 flight, in certain prescribed open places in the forest ; it is nearly 

 impossible to catch it on the wing, but it settles at intervals- low down 

 near the ground, when it may be captured. 



Larva. — The larva is similar to Ismene fergusonii, de Niceville, in 

 every way ;. it feeds on the young pink leaves of the same plant, 



