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which brown line runs up the face, but does not reach the vertex of 

 the head ; all these markings are obsolescent in soma specimens ; a 

 black line down the centre of the clypeus ; segment 12 is slightly 

 broader than segment 11, being somewhat swollen at the spiracles, 

 colour bluish opaque white all over, with a yellow tinge at the front 

 margins of the anterior segments. Length 40 mm. 



Pupa. — As in the description of the group; the beak is slightly 

 curved downwards ; has a blunt tip, and a small bit stuck on to the tip; 

 colour is a very watery darkish green, with a double, broadish, white 

 dorsal line ; proboscis reaches only to the hinder margin of seg- 

 ment 9. Length 34 mm. over all. 



Habits. — The same as for the last. The larva feeds on bamboo. 



226. Baoris canaraica, Moore. 

 This insect, of which we have never reared or discovered the larva, 

 was unknown to us until last year, when we found it plentiful in the 

 same localities as B. oceia, Hewetson ; it has the habits of this latter 

 species in that it is only found basking in the early morning sun and 

 just before sundown, but it frequents the borders of the open glades in 

 the jungle, whereas B. oceia prefers the small spaces under high 

 trees where the ground is covered with weeds. Single specimens 

 have been caught near Karwar on the coast. The females are 

 extremely rare, as only the males bask ; it is a rapid flier. 



Group E. 

 This group is characterised by the insects having a larva with a 

 triangular-shaped head when looked at from in frunt ; otherwise, 

 the larva and pupa are the same as in the last group. The imagos 

 rest with the wings closed over the back; are of rapid, short flight; are 

 fond of flowers, and are found always settled near the ground. The 

 larvae feed on rice and grasses. 



227. Baoris colaca, Moore. (Plate VII, Fig. 7.) 

 We have bred great numbers of this insect in Karwar in the 

 monsoon ; it is the commonest of the grass- skippers in the larva 

 state ; it is so like others of the genus that we did not distinguish it 

 after capture for a long time, much less did we recognise it as a 

 distinct species on the wing ; the most probable reason for our never 

 having obtained it with the net until quite lately (in shady places in 

 the big juagles above the ghats, not in Karwar) is that it is a. 



