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Group D. 



All the imagos of this group and the next two groups rest with 

 their wines closed over the back. They are, moreover, connected 

 together by the similarity of the pupa, and the fact that the pupa is 

 formed free on the surface of the leaf, attached by the tail and a body- 

 band instead of inside a cell. The larvas all feed on monocoty- 

 ledonous plants. The butterflies of the group D are all fast-flying 

 insects generally fond of basking in the sun on leaves, and 

 are all greedy flower- feeders. The larva has a head of a semi- 

 eliptical shape, somewhat narrowed at the top, truncated at the base 

 and slightly bi-lobed ; the body is cylindrical, somewhat depressed, 

 thickest at segment 5, sloping at the last segment, with the extremity 

 of the anal segment rounded broadly. The pupa is cylindrical, very 

 slightly constricted dorsally only, behind thorax, produced generally 

 into a long, sharp, conical snout in front (in Ampittia maro, Fabricius, 

 there is an up-turned small conical point in front of each eye), the eyes 

 being prominent ; the abdomen is tapering, and ends in a thin, long 

 more or less broadly triangular, curved cremaster; the proboscis (except 

 in A. maro, Fabricius) is produced beyond the wings, and generally as 

 far as the cremaster ; the colour is a bright watery-looking grass- 

 o-reen all over ; the surface is quite glabrous and shiny ; there are no 

 spiracular expansions to segment 2 ; it is fastened by both the tail and 

 a band. The pupa is formed on the open surface of the leaf, either 

 on the upperside or the underside (A. maro is again abnormal in that 

 its pupa is formed on the stem of the grass or rice on which its larva 

 feeds); the edges of the leaf may be slightly drawn together, but they 

 are never made to meet, the pupa is quite exposed. The larva makes 

 a cell by joining the edges of the leaf longitudinally, loosely (never 

 tightly), but it as often as not lives on the open surface of the leaf ; it 

 feeds on grasses and bamboos. 



219. Ampittia maro, Fabricius. (Plate VIII, Fig. 10.) 



The butterfly is common throughout the district at all seasons ; it 

 is very abundant round rice-fields. Its flight is not very rapid, and 

 it rests often ; wherefore it is easily captured in the net ; it is fond 

 of basking with its wings half-open, We have bred many specimens 

 in cages from the egg. 



