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The larva is to be had in any numbers during the rains. In the dry- 

 weather, owing to the food-plant dying down, it is not at all common 

 anywhere. 



Larva. — As, in the description of the group ; head black, with the 

 surface rugose and shiny ; each segment slightly swollen around the 

 spiracles *, surface of body glabrous, greasy-looking ; colour of body 

 a watery, very dark indigo-green, the tracheae showing through as 

 white threads ; a dark dorsal pulsating line ; end segment whitish ; 

 segments 2 and 3 yellowish, as well as the margins of segments 4 and 

 5. Length 37 mm. A good deal more when fully stretched out. 



Pupa. — As in group ; snout of head squarely blunt at tip ; colour 

 Is a watery bright green ; proboscis reaches to end of cremaster. 

 Length 32° 7 5 mm. 



Habits. — As for the group ; the larva feeds on Curcuma aromatica. 

 231. Notocrypta feisthamelii, Boisduval (= alysos, Moore). 



This insect is of common occurrence in moist thick jungles above 

 the ghats, especially in evergreen jungles ; it is probably found in 

 similar situations below the ghats. We have bred numbers, together 

 with Sancus pulligo, Mabille, in the dry weather above the ghats, 

 though never in Karwar in the monsoon. 



Larva. — Nearly exactly similar to that of the last species ; the head 

 is here, however, chocolate-brown in colour ; the body dark indigo- 

 green ; anal segment whitish-yellow. Length 31*25 mm. 



Pupa. — Not distinguishable from the last. 



Habits. — The habits are the same as those of the last ; the larva 

 pupates in the cell ; larva feeds on Maranta. 



232. Notocrypta restricta, Moore. (Plate VIII, Fig. 7.) 



In the monsoon round Karwar this skipper is very plentiful in similar 

 localities to the nest ; it has a weakish flight, and is found basking 

 low down among leaves, &c. We have reared many in the monsoon 

 in Karwar and a few above the ghats in the dry weather ; it is found 

 throughout the district, though not common in the dry months. 



Larva. — As in group ; with a black head, broadly whitish-yellow in 

 the centre of each lobe. Length 37*5 mm. 



Pupa.— As in the group ; proboscis produced well beyond the end 

 of the cremaster ; same length as last. 



Habits. — Same as the last ; pupa formed on the underside of a leaf. 



