144 JOURNAL, BOMBA Y NA TURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. X 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. I— CROCODILES IN AETIFICIAL RESERVOIRS. 



During April last, rewards were paid by the Bombay Municipality to the 

 three peons employed in guarding Vehar and Tuisi Lakes for the production 

 of ninety-one crocodiles' eggs found on the borders of Tulsi and for the two 

 crocodiles which were shot at Yehar. One of these measured nine feet, and the 

 other one five feet. The reward for crocodiles' eggs, found on the banks of 

 these reservoirs, is two annas each egg, and the reward for killing crocodiles is 

 one rupee per lineal foot of carcase on production of the saurian. 



H. W. BARROW, 



Municipal Offices, Bombay, 1st June, 1895. 



No. IT.—DESCRIPTION OF THE TBANSFORMATIONS OF 



ARRHOPALA PARAMUTA, de NICEVILLE, A 



LYC^NID BUTTERFLY. 



Two lycsenid, larvae were found on the Fagoo Tea Estate in the Western 



Duars at 2,500 feet elevation above the sea. Length about § of an inch. 



Onisciform, flattened, covered with downy bristles, semi-transparent, dull 



whitish, becoming more opaque and white dorsally ; an olive-brown medial 



dorsal line throughout ; two short white protrusible brush-like tentacles on thg 



twelfth segment, a medial small orifice on the eleventh segment probably 



exuding a fluid, as it is vigorously attended by a small black ant, the latter 



apparently tickling the larva with its antenna to make it do so. The larva is 



very similar to that of Arrliopala ah/seus, Hewitson, which I discovered on Sal 



trees attended by a large red ant in 1890. Before pupating the larva becomes 



pinkish with a tinge of purple. It feeds on the leaves of Castaneopsis sp. 



Pupa. Pale brown, with a darker dorsal streak and irrorated slightly on the 

 back with dark brown. Abdomen rather flattened. Emerged on 19th May, 

 1895, both females. 



G. C. DUDGEON, f.e.s. 

 Fagoo Tea Estate, 

 - Western Duaks, May 26t7i, 1895. 



No. III.-DESORIPTION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF 

 B ADA MI A EXCLAMATIONIS, FABRICIUS, A 

 HESPERID BUTTERFLY. 



A hesperid larva was found on the Fagoo Tea Estate in the Western Duars 

 at 1,500 feet elevation above the sea. It had formed the usual case or shelter 

 by webbing the edges of a leaf together. Superficially it was somewhat 

 like the figure of the larva of Hasora bhadra, Moore, given in Horsfield and 



