158 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Female like the male, but larger. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 2^^ to 3-pj- inches. 



Larva white, covered with a waxy powder and has a black heart-shaped head. 

 It lives in a shelter made of a portion of rolled-up leaf. To make this shelter it 

 has to cut into the edge of the enormous leaves of the wild or cultivated Musa, or 

 jilantaius, to obtain a suitable segment to be rolled up. 



Pupa whitish, covered with the same white powder as is the larva and is 

 hidden from view in its dining-room. The powder is of the greatest service to the 

 animal, as in consequence of the heavy showers of rain of the Tropics, much water 

 often collects in the rolled-up leaf, and the pupa, if not so protected, would soon be 

 drowned and rot ; as it is, the powder keeps the pupa dry until the water has drained 

 away or dried up. 



The butterfly emerges from the pupa in the afternoon at 2 or 3 p.m., and is 

 on the wing before sunrise or after sunset, (de Niceville and Martin.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Hong-Kong. 



Distribution. — A species widely spread all over India ; we have it from many 

 parts ; it does not appear to occur in Ceylon or the Andaman or Nicobar Islands. 



The figure of the larva is from Grote's original drawinsr. 



ERIONOTA ACROLEUCA. 



Plate 794, figs. 2, i , 2a, ? , 2b, (J . 



Teligonus acroleucus, Wood- Mason and de Nicoville, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, September, 1881, p. 1-43. 

 Hesperia acroleuca, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 2G0. 

 Teligonus acroleuca, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 459. 

 Erionota acroleuca, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 107 (1891). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 321. 



Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 86. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 181 (1894). 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 102. 

 Hesperia hiraca, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 313, 9 • 

 Teligonus lara, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 365. 

 Erionota thrax, Elwes and Edwards (part). Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 217. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, somewhat olive-brown, of an entirely 

 different shade of colour to that of fhnLi'. Furewlng with the aj^ex pale, generally 

 iLshy-white ; spotting similar. Hindwutg without markings. Cilia dusky at apex of 

 forewrng, gradually becoming pale yellow towards the hinder angle, all pale yellow on 

 the hindwing. Underside very little paler than on the upperside, purple tinted in 

 parts, making the surface somewhat variegated, markings as in thrax. Antennas black, 

 the club on the underside pure white, the terminal hook red beneath ; palpi, head 

 and body above and below and the legs concolorous with the wings, eyes red. 



Female like the male, the spots larger. 



