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Larva. — As in the description of the group ; head yellow-brown with 

 black mandibles; eyes black; a red-brown central band down the face, 

 and a red-brown crescent-shaped mark in centre of each lobe ; the colour 

 may vary from yellow-brown to brown-black, but is always somewhat 

 liohter on the vertex of each lobe. The dark head is characteristic 

 of the wet months, the light of the dry season ; body covered with 

 short, darkish, erect hairs ; longish hairs round the margin ; colour 

 of the body is a watery dirty dark green. Length 3T25 mm. 



Pupa. — As described for the group ; slight boss between the eyes, 

 surmounted by four fan-shaped tufts of dense bristles ; eyes prominent, 

 with short erect hairs ; head bowed slightly ; segments 11 to 13 with 

 tufts of hairs directed backwards on their lateral margins ; cremaster 

 short and square, with a short tooth at each hinder corner, clothed 

 along the margin and extensor ridges with longish, dense, red-brown 

 hairs which are not hooked ; body covered with more or less erect, 

 short, yellow hairs ; a lateral row of oval, flat, raised, dark brown, 

 smooth tubercles ; another subspiracular row of similar tubercles ; 

 also a ventral row ; on segment 11 there are three tubercles 

 arranged in a triangle; colour of thorax and wings green; of 

 abdomen green-yellow ; a green dorsal line ; hinder edge of cremaster 

 and teeth dark brown. Length 16 mm. 



Habits. — This larva builds a cylindrical cell tightly closed, like the 

 cell described for the group, until the last moult, when it forms a cell 

 by doubling the leaf transversely across the middle bringing the point 

 up to the stalk and joining the edges loosely with silk ; when about 

 to pupate, it eats the leaf free at the gtalk end, and the cell falls to the 

 ground where the pupation takes place. The pupa is in no way fixed 

 inside the cell. The larva feeds on bamboo. * 



209. Halpe astigmata, Swinhoe. 



We have caught a single specimen of the butterfly in Supa, above 

 the ghats, in the month of May, basking on a leaf in a very thick 

 place in a nalla. It is the only specimen we have seen. 



210. Halpe ceylonica, Moore. 



We have obtained a few specimens of this butterfly also at some 

 time with the net, but took them to be slightly weathered individuals 

 of II. moorei, Watson. 



