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a brilliant metallic :hue, and looks like burnished gold with burnished silver 

 wing-cases. July 5th, — Imago emerged. 



Mrs. S. ROBSON. 



" LlVELANDS," MUSSOORIE, 



20th July, 1894. 



VIII.— LIFE HISTORY OF G AMEN A GLE0B1S, GODART, A 

 LYO^NID BUTTERFLY. 



June 24th. — Found several eggs of Gamma cleobis, Godart, on Loranthus bicolor, 

 Linn, (vernacular name " Banda "), at Mussoorie, in the Western Himalayas. 

 The eggs were laid either on the stems or on the underside of the leaves. In 

 shape they are spherical, and covered with honeycomb-like indentations. The 

 larva emerges either from the side or the top of the egg, and eats a small round 

 hole in the shell to get out. It does not. eat the shell after it emerges. At the 

 same time was found a larva of a lycsenid butterfly on the underside of a 

 leaf, and it bore a striking protective resemblance to the pink and yellow shades 

 of the edge of the leaf, on which it rested quite flat, with no legs or claspers 

 visible. The larva was of the usual oniscif orm shape, except that it was a little 

 stouter than usual posteriorly, and much stouter anteriorly, so that the outline 

 was roughly that of a club. The whole larva was yellowish-green, except a 

 faint pink patch on the anterior segments, beneath which the head is usually 

 withdrawn. This larva changed its skin on the 26th, and died on the 29th. 



July 7th.— On a quantity of " Banda : ' brought into the house, two lycasnid 

 eggs were found, and placed in a very small bottle. July 13th. — A very minute 

 larva emerged from one of the eggs. Length one-sixteenth of an inch. It fed 

 on one of the leaves, and was most difficult to distinguish from its food-plant, 

 and would not have been discovered had I not seen the hole in the 

 egg. July 19th.— The larva has changed its skin and is now a quarter 

 of an inch long. Colour green. The larva is very depressed, with 

 a pink spot on the " hood," by which is meant the anterior segments 

 beneath which the head is hidden. The larva eats a small hole half-way 

 through the leaf, and then moves to a fresh place. July 30th. — Larva now 

 three-eighths of an inch long, somewhat fish-shaped. The " hood " is dented 

 anteriorly, and when seen laterally reminds one of the mouth of a fish. On this 

 day the head was first seen, it is light brown and shaped like that of a tortoise. 

 A spiracular white line is now visible on each side of the larva. On the twelfth 

 segment are two subdorsal white marks which slope from the dorsal line down- 

 wards and backwards. August 2nd. — Larva changed its skin. Its shape is 

 now more accentuated, the anterior portion of the body is stouter and more 

 club-like, the tenth and eleventh segments being also more constricted, 

 the thirteenth segment more depressed and broader. On the tenth and 

 eleventh segments are two small subdorsal dots. It is difficult to verify 

 the segments, as the sides of the larva appear to adhere to the leaf. 

 August 5th.— The larva is now three-quarters of an inch in length, and 

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