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Dry-season Brood = taylori (Figs. 3d, ^, 3e, ?, 3f, ?). 



Male and female differ from the other form in being much paler in colour, with au 

 ochreous tinge, and in the hiudwiiig the pale pinkish-ochreous spots and streaks are 

 sometimes obsolete, sometimes fointly indicated, and the underside is usually almost 

 entirely greyish-white, with three transverse series of small dots. 



Expanse of wings, <? ? If^ to 1-^^ inches. 



Larva. — Head slightly bi-lolied, dark chestnut in colour, with the lower third of 

 the face clothed with white adpressed hairs densely, above which are erect white hairs 

 traversed by a band of brown erect hairs ; near the vertex of each lobe is a bare patch ; 

 the sides of the head are clothed with long curved white hairs ; the head is large ; 

 the surface of the body is covered with small hair-bearing tubercles, rendering it some- 

 what rugose ; colour green, with a yellowish tinge at the margins of the segments. 

 Length, 28 mm. 



Pupa. — Head thick and quadrate, with a small pointed tubercle on the front of 

 each eye, and a larger Ijluut one between the eyes on the front of the head, which 

 latter tubercle is hairy ; the spiracular expansion of segment 2 is kidney-shaped, large, 

 and red-brown in colour ; the colour of the pupa is light green spotted with lilack, as 

 follows : a 5-sided spot at the dorsal front margin of the thorax, another behind the 

 spiracular expansion, eight others in different positions on the thorax, a series of sul)- 

 dorsal spots on the abdomen, one to each segment, each spiracle surrounded by black, 

 some black markings about the cremaster, four longitudinal black lines on the wings ; 

 surface of pupa finely hairy, with short adpressed and erect hairs. Length, 19 mm. 



Habits. — The egg is laid on the top surface of the leaf ; the young larva makes a 

 cell by cutting a circular piece out of the leaf, leaving this piece attached l)y a hinge 

 and turning it over on to the top of the leaf, where it is fixed down by silk and 

 strongly lined inside with the same material ; this piece is small and withers soon to a 

 brown colour ; the final cell, and some l:)efore it, is made by turning a large piece from 

 the edge over on to the underside of the leaf and fixing loosely with silk ; the larva 

 eats holes in the top-covering of the cell thus formed, leaving, however, space enough 

 to rest on, for it rests on the roof of the cell with its back towards the g-round ; the 

 change to pupa is performed in the cell ; the larva feeds on Ilelicteres isora, L. 



This insect is very common throughout the district at all seasons ; it is very 

 variable in colour, running from briglit golden-brown above with few markings to dark 

 brown with many markings ; the golden-brown form (named C. tayluri, de Niceville, for 

 us by de Niceville) has been bred in the cold season from larvpe and pupge similar in all 

 points to those which produce C. ransonnetii in the monsoon. The butterfiy is rapid 

 of flight and difficultto capture on the wing. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon. 



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