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Larva. — Shape as in the group ; head black, very perfectly round, 

 with a finely reticulated surface ; finely and sparsely hairy, with very 

 minute, more or less adpressed hairs ; about the jaws the hairs are 

 longest ; the head is large for the size of the body ; last segment 

 covered with dense, low, conical, brown tubercles ; body covered with 

 minute erect hairs. Colour is a watery dirty green. Length 25 mm. 



Habits. — The larva makes a cell as for the group at the point of a 

 leaf, eating the substance of the leaf below the cell, towards the stalk, 

 and leaving the midrib only. The pupa is suspended by the tail, and 

 has a loose body-string ; this body-string is black in colour. The larva 

 feeds on a very long-leafed soft grass. 



215. Taractrocera ceramasj Hewitson. 



This insect we for a long time mistook for what we called 

 Ampittia coras, Cramer (= Taractrocera nicevillei, Watson). It is 

 common below the ghats in the monsoon months ; it skips about 

 amongst the small grasses iu open places, on paths, and in the 

 compounds of bungalows on the hills. We were a long time in 

 finding the larva, which we obtained for the first time last monsoon. 

 The butterfly is easily caught sunning itself on blades of grass with 

 its wings half-open. 



Larva. — Head rounded ; not very thick in the line of the 

 longitudinal axis of the larva ; face convex ; surface rugose ; hairy 

 about the jaws ; green-white in colour, with the hinder margin 

 black ; a black band on the cheek reaching from the vertex to the 

 base ; a broad central black line continued along the sides of the 

 clypeus ; another from the apex to the base of the clypeus, and a 

 brown longitudinal streak in the centre of each lobe not reaching 

 the vertex ; segment 2 has a thin, black collar joining the two 

 black spiracles ; last segment flat, broadly rounded at the extremity ; 

 surface of body covered with minute, brown, setiferous tubercles ; 

 margin shortly hairy. Colour of body grass-green. Length 16 mm. 



Pupa. — Shape as in the group ; head bowed, nearly as broad as 

 the shoulders ; a slight constriction between segments 2 and 3 ; 

 the pupa nearly the same breadth from the shoulders to segment 10 ; 

 thorax slightly humped and somewhat compressed ; transverse 

 section of abdomen absolutely cylindrical from segment 4 to segment 

 10 ; cremaster very short ; a mere ledge, with a short triangular 



