lis LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



end of the cell, the wing sparsely covered with minute orange scales, and indications 

 of some obscure, small, orange spots on the outer margin. Antennae black, ringed 

 with wliite, a white patch at the l)ase of the elulj on the underside ; palpi grey beneath, 

 l)ro\vn above ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings; abdomen 

 with whitish segmental bands on the underside. 



Female like the male, but all the orange spots are usually much smaller and 

 more separated from each other than they are in the male, and in the forewing 

 the spots joined hindwards to the two spots in the middle of the disc are often 

 wanting. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? 1 to Ijo inches. 



Larva. — Head rounded ; not very thick in the line of the longitudinal axis of the 

 larva, face convex, surface rugose, hairy about the jaws, green-white in colour, 

 with tlie hinder margin black, a black band on the cheek reaching from the vertex to 

 the base, a broad central black line along the sides of the clypeus, another from the 

 apex to the base of the clypeus, and a l)rowu longitudinal streak in the centre of each 

 lobe not reaching the vertex; segment 2 has a thin, black collar joining the two 

 black spiracles ; last segment flat, broadly rounded at the extremity ; surface of body 

 covered with minute, brown, setiferous tubercles ; margin shortly hairy. Colour of 

 l)ody grass-green. Length, 16 mm. 



Pupa. — Shape as in the group, head bowed, nearly as broad as the shoulders, a 

 slight constriction between segments 2 and 3 ; the pupa nearly the same breadth from 

 the shoulders to segment 10; thorax slightly humped and somewhat compressed, 

 transverse section of abdomen absolutely cylindrical from segment 4 to segment 1 ; 

 cremaster very short, a mere ledge, with a short, triangular tooth at each hinder 

 corner ; the cremaster is slightly turned up as in P. dara, Moore, and has in the 

 centre of its hinder margin a dense single row of simple red hairs pointing straight 

 backwards ; head rounded between the eyes, with elliptical sliield-like surface raised 

 from the surface of the head between the eyes, spiracular expansion of segment 2 

 large, raised, semicircular, spongy-looking as to surface ; body covered with erect 

 and semi-ei'ect small red hairs, some erect longish red hairs on the head and eyes ; 

 colour of pupa is a watery-looking, dirty cream ; cremaster, spiracular expansions, 

 and front of head red-brown. Lenoth, 11-5 mm. 



Habits. — The egsr is laid on the underside of the leaf ; the larva makes a 

 cylindrical cell, when small, at the side of a leaf ; when full grown it makes a cell by 

 folding a leaf longitudinally ; when about to pupate it makes a cell at the root of the 

 plant in which some dead leaves are incorporated. All the larvae obtained were 

 taken when nearly full grown in October ; they ceased feeding by the 25th of the 

 month, remained in the larval stage in the cell until the 12th of February, when the}' 

 commenced to pupate, all about the same time. The pupa lies free within the cell. 



