1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 305 



127. NiSAGA SIMPLEX. 



Nisaga simplex. Walker, iv. p. 885. 



Sattara, June. 



The female in this genus only differs from the male in having 

 very slightly narrower fore wings, and antennae perhaps a little less 

 deeply pectinated ; but the difference, if any, is very little. 



128. Nisaga modespa. 



Nisaga modesta, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. ISS-t, p. 373. 

 Bombay, August ; Sattara, June; Poona, April. 

 Both the above appear iu great quantities at a time. 



129. TrABALA VISHNU. 



2 . Gastropacha vishnu, Lefebvre, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 207 

 (1827). 



cj . Amydona prasinoy Walker, vi. p. 1417. 



Bombay, March and August. 



130. Lenodora vittata. 

 Lasiocampa vittata, Walker, vi. p. 1440. 

 Poona, November. 



131. Taragama ganesa. 



cJ. Bombyx ganesa, Lefebvre, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 211 (1827). 



2 . Bombyx siva, I. c. p. 210. 



Poona, July, November, and December. 



Larvae feed on Acacia arahica, d\ inches in length, very hairy, with 

 down quite close to the skin ; colour grey ; night-feeders, hide during 

 the day in crevices in the bark of the tree ; larval stage 50 to 5f) 

 days ; spins on the twig of some low bush near the foot of its food- 

 tree or on a neighbouring wall, a])parently never in the tree itself ; 

 pupal stage 21 to 24 days. 



132. Trisula variegata. (Plate XXI. fig. 7, pupa.) 

 Trisula variegata, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 420, 



pi. xii a. i. 1 . 



Poona, October ; Bombay, October to December. 



Two fully-grown larvse were reared by me on the castor-oil plant ; 

 left off eating on the 4th October, 1883 ; one turned pupa on the 

 25th of the following montli, and the imago emerged on the 22nd 

 December, 1883; the other caterpillar hybernated and lost allitshairs 

 after spinning a delicate slight cocoon ; in this state I brought the 

 insect home from Bombay, looking at it once a fortnight, for which pur- 

 pose I cut off one end of the cocoon, and kept it covered with cotton ; 

 and though rather shrivelled, it was quite lively, and in this state the 

 larva remained until last September, when it turned into a healthy 



