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and October. We have generally found it at flowers ; it is fonder of 

 thick jungle than the last species ; like the last, it rests on the under- 

 side of leaves. We have bred a fair number. 



Larva. — Is not to be distinguished from that of T. atticus, Fabricius, 

 except by the colour of ihe head, which is here black, and by the front 

 segments of the body being suffused with rose colour. The larva is 

 somewhat larger than that of T. atticus. 



Pupa. — The pupa, though larger, is proportionately slighter than 

 that of the foregoing ; the surface is covered with minute brown pit- 

 tings and very minute hairs. Spiracular expansion of segment 2 is 

 small, slightly swollen, with a spongy-looking surface, facing slightly 

 backwards. Colour a light greenish-yellow. A little larger than that 

 of T. atticus all round, and a good deal longer comparatively. 



Habits. — The larva scollops the edge of its cell ; occasionally hibernates ; 

 resembles in habits the last species ; feeds on Dioscorea pentapliylla. 



Gkoup D. 



This group consists of a single species. The larva makes a cell by 

 gnawing through the midrib half-way up the leaf, separating the top 

 half from the basal half by eating a line across ; the latter half is joined 

 by the edges and withers, hardening into a perfectly cylindrical curved 

 cell; this cell is lined inside thickly with silk, drawn under the green 

 half and fastened there, being thus protected from wet; the mouth of 

 the cell is at the point where the midrib has been gnawed through. 

 The young larva makes a tight and cylindrical cell at the edge of the 

 leaf by turning over an oblong piece on to the top ; the larva is 

 pecaliar in being broadest at the twelfth segment ; the head is heart- 

 shaped, the vertex being the narrow side, and is slightly bi-lobed, very 

 finely velute, and chocolate-brown in colour, larger than segment 2. 

 Body cylindrical, depressed at the last 4 segments, squarish at the 

 extremity; segment 2 has a broad, shiny, red-brown collar. Surface 

 covered with small, light, erect hairs. Colour light green, yellow- 

 ish on segments 3 and 4 ; posterior segments yellowish ; a dorsal 

 brown line on segments 11 to end ; a green dorsal line on segments 2 

 to 10 ; the margins of segments 11, 12, 13 are marked with brown. 

 Length 25 mm. 



Pupa. — The pupa has the head rounded in front, with a semi- 

 circularly rounded boss, which is flattened above and below between the 



