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are erect white hairs traversed by a band of brown erect hairs ; near 

 the vertex of each lobe is a bare patch ; the sides of the head are 

 clothed with long, curved, white hairs ; the head is large. The sur- 

 face of the body is covered with small, hair-bearing tubercles, render- 

 ing it somewhat rugose. Colour green with a yellowish tinge at the 

 margins of the segments. Length 28 mm. 



Pupa. — Head thick and quadrate, with a small pointed tubercle on 

 the front of each eye, and a larger blunt one between the eyes on the 

 front of the head, which latter tubercle is hairy. The spiracular 

 expansion of segment 2 is kidney-shaped, large, and red-brown in 

 colour. The colour of the pupa is light green spotted with black as 

 follows : — A 5-sided spot at the dorsal front margin of the thorax, ano- 

 ther behind the spiracular expansion, eight others in different positions 

 on the thorax, a series of subdorsal spots on the abdomen, one to each 

 segment, each spiracle surrounded by black, some black markings 

 about the" cremaster, four longitudinal black lines on the wings. Sur- 

 face of pupa finely hairy with short, adpressed and erect hairs. 

 Length 19 mm. 



Habits. — The egg is laid on the top surface of the leaf; the young- 

 larva makes a cell by cutting a circular piece out of the leaf, leaving 

 this piece attached by a hinge and turning it over on to the top of the 

 leaf, where it is fixed down by silk and strongly lined inside with the 

 same material ; this piece is small and withers soon to a brown colour. 

 The final cell, and some before it, is made by turning a large piece 

 from the edge over on to the underside of the leaf, and fixing loosely 

 with silk ; the larva eats holes in the top-covering of the cell thus 

 formed, leaving, however, space enough to rest on, for it rests on the 

 roof of the cell with its back towards the ground ; the change to pupa 

 is performed in the cell. The larva feeds on Helicteres isora, L. — See 

 Journal, Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. V, p. 374, No. 94, pi. F, 

 Figs. 1, larva; la, pupa (1890), where the transformations of this species 

 are figured under the name of Abaratha ransonetti, Felder. 



188. Odontoptilwn angulata^ Felder (—-sura, Moore). 

 (Plate VIII, Fig. 3.) 



Is met with all over the district, above and below the ghats, Kith 

 the exception of the parts immediately bordering on the plains. 

 It is nowhere common. The flight is rapid and jerky, but it often 



