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Habits. — Larva doubles a part of a leaf on to the top or bottom of 

 the rest of leaf, fastening the cell thus formed with silk all round 

 and lining the inside strongly with silk. The larva rests like those 

 of Sarangesa and Coladenia of the next group with its head turned 

 round on its side. The pupa is formed in a cell, and is fixed by the 

 tail and a body band. In the localities where this butterfly is 

 commonly found at the end of the rains, in the months of September 

 and onwards, there is not a specimen to be seen in the dry- weather 

 and the beginning of the rains. The eggs probably lie over on the 

 stems of the plant during the long period during which it is leafless — 

 from December to June. 



Group B. 



The imagos of this group rest with their wings fully open ; the 

 flight is strong, but of short duration ; they rest generally on the 

 upperside of leaves. The larva is spindle-shaped, thickest about the 

 fifth segment, attenuated towards both ends ; last segment narrow, 

 rounded at extremity ; head round, somewhat bullet-shaped, hardly 

 bi-lobed, large ; the colour of the larva is some shade of brown or 

 green, with a collar of a different colour on segment 2 ; the larva 

 makes a cell by turning over part of the leaf from the edge on to the 

 upperside or underside, lining the inside with silk ; the method of 

 making the cell, however, differs in the different genera. The pupa 

 is stout, square in front, with a boss between the eyes, and large 

 spiracular expansions to the spiracles of segment 2 ; it is attached 

 by the tail and a body band. The larva and pupa of Hesperia galba, 

 Fabricius, are very similar to the larvse and pupse of this group. The 

 egg is nearly hemispherical, and is rayed from top to bottom. 



187. Caprona ransonnetii, Felder. (Plate VIII, Fig. 4.) 



This insect is very common throughout the district at all seasons ; it is 

 \ery variable in colour, running from bright golden-brown above with 

 few markings to dark brown with many markings ; the golden-brown 

 form, named C. taylorii, de Niceville, for us by Mr. de ^Niceville, has 

 been bred in the cold season from larvas and pupae similar in all points 

 to those which produce C. ransonmtii in the monsoon. The butterfly 

 is rapid of flight, and difficult to capture on the wing. 



Larva. — Head slightly bi-lobed, dark chesnut in colour, with the lower 

 third of the face clothed with white adpressecl hairs densely, above which 



