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attached by the tail only with no median girth, is short and very thick 

 for its length, anteriorly light green, the wing-cases dark brown, the 

 abdominal segments also brown, on the back and the sides of the 



body green. 



202. Hoeaga viola, Moore. 



A single specimen bred from a larva found feeding in Mussoorie on 

 the leaves of Corlaria nepalensls, Wall., Natural Order Coriariece. It 

 is a most curious looking creature, about half an inch long, of a reddish- 

 brown colour, of the usual lycsenid shape, but furnished with eleven 

 tentacular processes, two on the third segment, one each on the fourth, 

 seventh, eighth, and ninth segments, all dorsal, the fifth has three, 

 two lateral and one dorsal, the eleventh has two lateral ones. 

 203. Catopcecilma elegans, Druce. 



Rare in Mussoorie from March to May, in July and August ; also in 

 Dehra Dun in August and September. 



204. Loxuka atymnus, Cramer. 



Rare in Mussoorie in August and September, common in the Dun 

 almost all the year round. 



205. Deudoeix epij abbas, Moore. 



Common at Mussoorie from July to September, and in the Dun 

 from February to September. The larva feeds on the fruit of the 

 horse-chestnut, JEsculus indica, Colebr., Natural Order Sapindacece, in 

 Mussoorie, and on the fruit of the pomegranate, Punica Granatum, 

 L., Natural Order Li/thracece^ in the Dun and adjoining low valleys. 



206. Hysudra selira, Moore. 



Not rare in Mussoorie from April to June, and again in September. 



The female butterfly has been observed ovipositing on the leaves of the 



wild Indigo, Indigofera atropwyurea, Hamilt,, Natural Order Legu- 



minosce. 



207. Rapala schistacea, Moore. 



Not rare in Mussoorie in May, June, and September, in the Griri 

 Valley in Sirmoor in November, and common in the Dun from March 

 to November. Mrs. Robson has bred the larva in Mussoorie on 

 Spircea sorbi/oHa, L., Natural Order JRosacece, and described its trans- 

 formations in Journ. Bomb, Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. ix, p. 337 (1895). 



