154 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



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green, with head ami abdomen slightly yellowish ; pupa covered with a white powder 

 in the cell. Length, IG mm. 



Habits. — The lar\-a makes a strong cylindrical cell of a leaf longitudinally folded, 

 which it clothes deu.sely with silk, rendering it ditHcult to tear open ; the cell is 

 thickly covered with white powder inside. It feeds on palms {Cari/oia, Cocos, 

 Cahimus, etc.). 



This skipper cannot Ije said to he rare at any season or in any part of the district. 

 It has a rapid flight, and is difficult to capture on the wing. AVe have bred nearly all 

 our specimens. They keep their wings folded over their backs when at rest ; often 

 Avheu basking in the sun they open their lower wings. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma. 



Distribution. — A common species recorded from many parts of India, Ceylon and 

 Burma ; also recorded from Hainan hy Moore, and from Hong-Kong l)y J. J. Walker. 



Our figures of the larva and pupa are from Davidson's original drawings not 

 previously published, and copy of a larva figured by Atkinson, bred in ]\Iadras on date 

 palms. Phoenix sylvestris. 



SUASTUS SUBGRISEA. 



Plate 793, tigs, i, ^ , i^a, ? , 2b, £ . 



Sesperia suhffnsen, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 689, pi. 4-5, tig. 5. 



Suastiis siih[irisea, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 168 (1881). "Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 53 (1891). 

 Suastus gremhis, Watson (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 76 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 

 p. 429. Elwes and Edward.?, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 179. 



Imago. — Z\Iale. Upperside olive-brown. ForeiL-'iiig with an ochreous-white spot 

 in the first median interspace below the origin of vein 3, a smaller one before the 

 middle of the second median interspace, a dift'used small spot in the middle of the 

 interno-median interspace, all three in an outv/ardly oblique line ; indications of two or 

 three sub-apical dots, often quite absent. Hindwiwj without markings. Foreioing 

 paler, the middle of the wing dark, the spots as on the upperside. Ilindwlng with a 

 dark lirown spot at the end of the cell, one in the middle of the first median interspace 

 and another in the middle of interspace 6. Antennje black, underside of shaft with 

 minute white dots, tip of clul> orange ; palpi, head and body and the legs concoloi-ous 

 with the w'ings, palpi beneath and the pectus with white hairs. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, markings as on the upperside of 

 S. gremius. Underside paler than its own male, with a pinkish tint. Forewing with 

 the spots as on the upperside. JI ind wing with the brown spots as in its own male. 



Expanse of wings, J $ 1-^- to Ij'o inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



