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upwards and meets that of the opposite side, so as to form a more or less 

 prominent crimson patch. This stippling fades during successive moults 

 and is entirely lost after the last. The black colour of the head gradually 

 passes off also ; after the first moult, it is present as a black crown to the 

 green head, this crown grows smaller and is entirely lost after the final 

 moult. The final skin is identical with that of protractus ; when mixing 

 the two together I have been quite unable to say which was vestalis and 

 which protractus. 



Pupa identical with that of protractus, usually flesh-coloured and without 

 markings. 



The larvae of the whole of this genus, so far as the Indian forms are 

 concerned, bear characteristic bristles. These are seen to perfection in 

 C. etrida and in the early skins of all. Under a high power of the micros- 

 cope, an individual bristle is seen to be mounted on a whitish, nipple-like 

 process and to bear a transparent club or bead at its free end. Under 

 certain lights this bead is highly refractive and often gives off a brilliant 

 gleam like the glow of red-hot charcoal. The bristles are six in number on 

 each segment, arranged in an unequal-sided sexagon. The two anterior 

 are placed close to either side of the dorsal line, the two medial, well 

 down the sides, the two posterior not quite so near the median dorsal line 

 as the anterior pair. A similar arrangement is met with throughout all the 

 larvse of this genus and forms a most important binding link for purposes 

 of classification. In protractus the beads are often lost after the final 

 moult but the bristles persist ; in etrida they are seen to perfection after 

 the final moult. 



Lately being interested to see this characteristic spread to the allied 

 genus, I examined the larva of T. hecabe and find that the same bristles 

 with the same arrangement is to be seen in it, the only difference being 

 that the major bristles are reinforced by a host of smaller ones which do 

 not however hide the arrangement of the former. 



F. C. FRASER, Capt., I.M.S. 

 Hyderabad, Sind, September 1910. 



No. XXV.— THE OCCURRENCE OF ATELLA ALCIPPE, 

 Cramer, IN NORTH MALABAR. 



Mr. T. R. Bell describes this species as occurring very locally in North 

 Canara and as having been obtained recently in Travancore. Whilst in 

 North Malabar I went twice up what is known as the Tambracheri ghat, 

 between Pudupadi and Lakkadi, in April and noticed considerable num- 

 bers of this species flying about. On a third occasion I took my net and 

 captured as many specimens as I required. At the foot of the ghat (about 

 500 feet) it was comparatively scarce but from about 1,000 to 2,000 feet 

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