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This ridge or hood is furnished with two short, blunt, black, subdorsal spines. 

 The fourth and fifth segments are furnished each with two subdorsal 

 vermilion tubercles armed with a short black spine. The last segment is 

 bifurcated, and the points are yellow tipped with black. These appendages 

 are about ■£§ of an inch apart at the base, and project outwards at an angle 

 of about 15°. The legs, claspers, and abdomen are all of a whitish-green. 



Pupa, 1 inch long. It is of a brighter green than the larva, and is marked 

 longitudinally with four ochreous-yellow curved bars. 



The larva described above was found at Masuri, in the Western Himalayas, 

 in June, 1894. The pupa was kept in Masuri from June to October, and then 

 brought down to Bankipur in the plains of Behar. The imago emerged 



at Bankipur to-day. 



Mrs. S. ROBSON. 

 Bankipur, Behar, 

 21st March, 1895. 



No. XVII.— CUTTING A TIGER'S CLAWS. 



For some time I had noticed that the claws of a fine male tiger in the 

 public gardens here were growing into the flesh, so I determined to operate 

 upon him, but unfortunately I adopted the resolution a bit too late, for on 

 the night of the 25th February he began operations himself and tore out one 

 of the claws of his left fore foot by the roots leaving an ugly sore. Matters 

 therefore had to be pushed on at once. The cage in which the larger animals 

 are sometimes transported was brought into requisition. This is a strong one 

 six feet long by three feet six inches broad and four feet in height, consisting 

 of a framework composed of four inch beams fitted with three-quarter inch 

 bars of iron, one and-a-quarter inches apart on three sides ; while the fourth 

 side was a sliding door with bars one and-a-half inches apart. From the top 

 of this cage I had a false ceiling hung, consisting of one inch teak boards 

 padded with sacking filled with straw, and from the two ends of the cage 

 I had a couple of bars removed to give room for the tiger's paws to come 

 through. All was then ready. The patient was induced on the 28th February 

 to enter the cage by placing his food in it, and now came the tug-of-war. 

 The false ceiling was supported at the corners by ropes which were held up 

 by men standing on the top of the cage, six long iron bars were then passed 

 through the cage so as to rest on the false ceiling and the ends were manned 

 by two men on each side. At a signal given by the superintendent of the 

 gardens, the twelve men bore down on the ceiling while we anxiously awaited 

 events ; and to our great satisfaction we found that the men were able easily 

 to press the tiger down and to keep him down for any length of time. Indeed 

 so helpless was he that we were able to lever his legs about into the desired 

 position, and so examined them one by one. The Superintendent had caused 

 iron bars to be fixed horizontally opposite the openings at the end of the cage. 

 A noose was fixed to the leg that was to be operated on and it was pulled 

 through the opening and lashed on to the horizantal bar. The veterinarian 



