132 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



all the spots are aliseut. Evans records it from the Palui Hills, and Fergusson from 

 Travancore. We have a female from Ceylon received from Mackvvood. 



BARACUS HAMPSONI. 



Plate 787, figs. 3, J , 3a, $ , 3b, ^ , So, larva and pupa. 



BaraciLs hampsoni, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 171, pi. 18, fig. 21, ^ . 



Baracus geptenlrlonum, Hampson (nee Wood-Mason and de Niceville), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 



p. 365. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 371 (larva and pupa). 



Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 51, pi. 8, f. 11 (larva and pupa). 



Imago. — ]Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Foreiclng with two pairs of linear 

 ochreous spots in a line in the disc, two below the costa and the other two in the 

 median interspaces. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings ochreous- 

 l)rown. Underside. Foreicbuj blackish-brown, the costal space smeared with 

 ochreous, with lirown streaks between the veins, a small ochreous spot at the upper 

 end of the cell, two pairs of discal spots as on the upperside, and a series of obscure 

 sub-marginal spots from the apex half down the wing. Hindicinc] with the ground 

 colour ochreous, obscured by brown streaks between the ochreous veins. Cilia of both 

 wings orev with an ochreous basal line. Antennae blackish-brown, ochreous on the 

 underside, banded with brown ; palpi whitish beneath ; head and body above brown, 

 below paler. 



Female similar to the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ to Ij-q inches. 



This butterfly and the next ( Taractrocera ceramas, Hewitson) are very similar in 

 their habits, except that this one frequents places where the grass is high, and is often 

 found in dense jungle. It keeps to the tops of the hills around Karwar, and is never 

 found at a lower level than 800 feet. It is plentiful where found, but is local. We 

 have bred many. The insect has a slow, somewhat jerky flight, and is always found 

 near the ground. 



Larva. — Cylindrical, with a flattened anal segment, somewhat rounded at the 

 extremity ; head black, very perfectly round, with a finely reticulated surface ; finely 

 and sparsely hairy, with very minute, more or less adpressed hairs, about the jaws the 

 liairs are longest ; the head is large for the size of the body ; last segment covered 

 with dense, low, conical, brown tubercles ; body covered with minute erect hairs. 

 Colour is watery dirty green. Length, 25 mm. 



Habits. — The larva makes a cell as for the group at the point of a leaf, eating 

 the substance of the leaf below the cell, towards the stalk, and leaving the midrib 

 only. The pupa is suspended by the tail, and has a loose body-string ; this body- 



