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Larva. — As in the group; colour of head transparent-looking, 

 dirty, yellow-white, with a green clypeus, a light brown stripe running 

 down the centre of each lobe from the vertex to base, and another 

 inside it and parallel to it ; eyes black ; jaws' black • surface finely 

 celled, covered with erect, short, -light hairs ; surface of body covered 

 with minute, erect, white hairs ; segments 3 and 14 covered with brown 

 setiferous tubercles ; anal margin with longer hairs than the rest ; 

 colour dark green, with a subdorsal yellowish band flanked by a whitish 

 line ; two lateral and a marginal white line. Length 20 mm. 



Pupa.— Head square, convex on top ; eyes prominent; between 

 the eyes in front of the head are two conical excrescences which 

 overhang the eyes somewhat, the two together having the appearance 

 of a small crescent, the horns of which point forwards ; proboscis not 

 produced ; surface glabrous, shiny ; colour grass-green, with the 

 markings of the larva apparent on abdomen. Length 16 mm. 



Habits. — Larva lives absolutely in the open when full-grown. 

 Pupa forms on the stems of grass, or rice, with its head downwards. 

 The larva feeds on rice and grasses. 



220. Aeromachus indistinctus, Moore. 



This little skipper is extremely local in this district, but occurs in 

 quantities where found ; such is our experience ; in the months of 

 November and December we found it in the valley of the Kalinaddi, 

 far away from the coast, in numbers ; in January there was hardly a 

 specimen to be seen. The spot where we found it was a piece of 

 marshy ground surrounded by dense jungle. It is a greedy flower- 

 feeder ; flies low down near the ground among the grass and settles 

 often ; it is extremely difficult to see, being so small. We have 

 noticed odd individuals now and again at different times of the year ; 

 always in nalla beds and in thick jungle country ; we have bred 

 two specimens ; we possessed a very few specimens until we 

 came across the lot mentioned above, when we obtained as many as 

 we wished. 



Larva. — Very like that of the preceding species, A. maro, Fabricius ; 

 head half-elliptic, higher than broad, finely hairy about the mouth ; 

 colour green ; jaws yellow ; colour whitish-green, with dark green 

 showing through in small spots ; a dark dorsal line ; a white lateral 

 distinct line ; and a submarginal, white, indistinct line. Length 19 mm. 



