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small pad of pure white silk. The anal segment where it touches the leaf is 

 slightly widened out, thus forming a broad circular attaching base. The two 

 following segments slightly decrease in width, beyond these the pupa is of the 

 usual lycasnid shape. The dorsal view of the pupa presents almost a right- 

 angle, the apex of the angle being slightly rounded. The abdominal view 

 presents an angle of about 45°, the short portion of this view consisting of the 

 three basal segments, beyond which is the long portion which is composed of 

 the wing-cases and the head. The head ends in two short conical blunt pro- 

 cesses ; behind these there is on each side a slight depression which bears a pure 

 white dot, and probably answers to the eyes of the imago. On each side 

 running down to the apices of the cone-like processes is a pure white line. 

 The dorsum is smooth and humped in the middle. The first abdominal seg- 

 ment is the widest, and is produced into a broad blunt process anteriorly, which 

 slightly overhangs the dorsum. The abdominal segments somewhat rapidly 

 decrease in width, but again, as said before, widen out slightly where the anal 

 one joins the leaf. The coloration throughout is dark umber-brown, with a 

 broad lighter brown band on each side of the abdominal segments above. Mrs. 

 Robson informs me that in another pupa in her possession the top of the head- 

 case is green with a green bar on each side ; the two conical head-processes are 

 also green. Also that the whole pupa can move to the extent of one-eighth of 

 an inch, the " hinge " being at the point where the abdominal segments meet 

 the wing-cases in the dorsal line. The pupa on pressure being applied to the 

 anterior thicker portion touches the leaf to which it is attached at the anterior 

 or head end, but that it springs back to its normal position when the pressure 

 is removed. 



The fortunate discovery of the transformations of the species adds one more 

 to the interesting list of lycasnid pupae which are abnormal in their mode of 

 attachment, lacking a silken girdle entirely. Of these a somewhat similar pupa 

 is figured in " A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the 

 Hon. East-India Company," by Horsfield and Moore, vol. i, pi. xii, fig. 2a 

 (1857), as Dijpsas liocellatus, G-rote, MS. This species does not appear to 

 have ever been described, so I am unable to identify it. As Mr. Arthur 

 Grote, F.Z.S., collected and made observations on Lepidoptera only, as far as 

 I know, at Alipur, a suburb of Calcutta, it may be that the larva and pupa 

 figured in this work are those of Tajuria longinus, Fabricius, or Camena 

 cleobis, Godart, both of which occur not uncommonly in Calcutta. Another 

 pupa is that figured in Mr. Moore's " Lepidoptera of Ceylon," vol. i, pi. xxxiv, 

 fig. lb (1881), as Spalgis ejpius, Westwood, but this identification is incorrect, 

 the larva and pupa there given being probably that of Horaga ciniata, 

 Hewitson, this name being subsequently changed to H. cingalensis, Moore. 

 Still another pupa is that of Tajuria longinus, Fabricius, figured on pi. xlii, 

 fig. 26, of the last mentioned work. As the larva of T. longinus as figured by 

 Mr, Moore does not agree at all with Grote's figure of the larva of " Dipsas 



