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Our specimens were bred above the ghats in the dry-season only ; 

 they are much lighter in colour than the last insect. 



Larva. — The larva is not distinguishable from that of S. purendra, 

 Moore, except by its colour, which is greenish-chocolate, and by the 

 shape of the head, which is more broadly lobed ; it is more narrowly 

 lobed, however, than the head of the larva of C. dan, Fabricius. 

 Same size as last. 



Pupa. — Same as that of S. purendra; the spiracular expansions 

 of segment 2 are semi-circular in shape, slightly raised from thorax 

 and face forwards. Body covered with fine, white, simple hairs. 

 Colour a transparent emerald-green. Size the same as that of 

 S. purendra. 



Habits. — Are the same as those of the last two. The larva feeds 

 on an acanthaceous plant allied to Lepidagathis, growing in moist 

 places generally. The larva of this and the last two species rest in 

 their cells with the head turned round on the side. 



Geoup C. 



The imagos of this group rest with their wings wide open as 

 those of Group B, and generally on the underside of the leaves. 

 They are all shade-loving insects, and have a very rapid jerky flight, 

 never sustained for any length of time. The typical larva is stout, 

 thickest at the fourth and fifth segments and somewhat narrow at the 

 anal end, the extremity being flattened and rounded ; the head is large, 

 very strongly bi-lobed, the lobes being separated by a deep triangular 

 sinus on the vertex ; surface of the head rugose ; jaws strong. The 

 colour of the larva is variable, being brown, green or white, according 

 to the species. The larva lies closely applied to the surface of the 

 leaf, with its head turned round on its side when at rest, like that of 

 the foregoing group ; it raises its head and opens its mandibles when 

 disturbed, as if to bite ; it makes a cell by turning over a triangular 

 piece of leaf from the edge on to the upperside, fixing laxly with silk 

 round the edges, and lying with its back towards the leaf-surface on 

 the underside of the piece turned over ; it sometimes scollops the 

 edge of the piece turned over. The pupa is stoutish, with a slightly 

 humped thorax and slight constriction, a short snout to the front of 

 the head between the eyes; in some cases, there is a spiracular expan- 

 sion to segment 2. The pupa is attached by the tail and by a body- 



