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fio wers of Kydia calycina ; the larva was obtained shortly afterwards 

 in the same locality. It is a new species, named from a single speci- 

 men obtained quite lately in another district by Mr. de Niceville, to 

 whom we forwarded some specimens bred by us, which he kindly 

 identified. The insect is very similar in its flight to H. moorei, 

 Watson, but seems to frequent the neighbourhood of water to a 

 Greater decree than the latter. It is not a common insect in this dis- 

 trict, and seems to be extremely local, frequenting the bamboo jungles 

 in the evergreen portions of the district on the edge of the ghats. 



Larva. — Head round, slightly indented on vertex; face convex; 

 surface rugose; finely hairy all over; the hairs being quite apparent to 

 the naked eye ; clypeus and about the jaws very dark brown; margin 

 and hinder part also dark brown ; the rest dirty yellow, witn a broad, 

 central, dark brown, longitudinal band ; shape of body as in the group; 

 the anal segment covered all over with reddish-brown star-shaped 

 spots, from each of which springs a short seta ; surface of body covered 

 with fine, short, erect, colourless hairs, which are longest on the anal 

 margin ; colour of larva is a watery greenish dirty yellow, with a 

 brown tinge on the hinder segments ; a dark green dorsal line. 

 Length 37*5 mm. 



Pupa. — Head bowed, square in front, parallel-sided, broader trans- 

 versely to length of pupa than long ; nearly as broad as is the thorax at 

 the shoulders ; slightly bossed between the eyes; hairy in front and 

 around the eyes, with erect, light, longish hairs ; segment 2 narrow, 

 parallel-sided ; thorax only slightly humped; twice as high at the 

 apex as segment 2 ; evenly convex, rounded at shoulders ; section 

 (transverse) of body is circular from shoulders to anal end ; cremaster 

 shortish, triangular, rounded at extremity; perfectly flat underneath, 

 with feebly developed dorsal extensor ridges, and a tuft of hooked 

 hairs at upperside of rounded extremity ; proboscis does not extend 

 free beyond the wings ; spiracular expansion of segment 2 large and 

 kidney-shaped, with its edge slightly raised from the surface of the 

 thorax, with a strainer-shaped central hollow and a rugose surface, 

 facing forwards ; dark brown in colour, very conspicuous ; body- 

 surface covered very densely with semi-erect, short, light hairs ; 

 irregularly and finely rugose, colour of pupa light dirty yellow 

 tin o-ed with brownish-red ; a lateral dark smudge along the side of the 



