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colour of body rose-brown dorsally, excepting on segments 2 and 3, wliieli are pale 

 sea-green like the sides ; the larva exudes a white secretion from the surllxce whir-h 

 hides the green colour and only allows the brown to appear in patches ; this secretion 

 takes the form of long feathery threads arranged in bunches dorsally, being most dense 

 on the sides of the first three segments. Length, 62 mm. 



Pupa. — Eyes very prominent ; thorax moderately humped ; wings very slightly 

 expanded behind the shoulders; section of abdomen very nearly circular; proboscis 

 nearly half as long again as the total length of the pupa; segment 12 (juite square at 

 the end, with a tooth at each corner, segment 13 appearing as a thin oval piece tacked 

 on behind ; cremaster obhmg, stout, curved, not one-third the breadth of segment 12 ; 

 the pupa is broadest at the shoulders and highest at the apex of the thorax, is fixed 

 only by the tail, and rattles against the sides of the cell when disturl)ed, making a 

 creaking noise by rubbing the abdominal segments together at the margins. The 

 inside of the cell is covered thickly with wliite powder. Length, 40 mm. 



Habits. — The imago when at rest folds its wings over its back ; the l)utterfiy is a 

 dusk-fiier, only appearing in the morning and evening, it has a rapid flight and is fond 

 of flowers ; the larva lies with its head turned round on its side ; it feeds on Coco>< 

 nucifera, Linnaeus, and Calamus rotang, Linnceus, and Caryota urens, LiunfBUS. This 

 is our largest skipper. It is only seen flying at dusk, resting on tree-trunks, rocks, 

 and on the underside of leaves in the darkest places in the jungle during the hours of 

 sunlight. It comes to flowers in the dusk, but is very rajiid on the wing and is very 

 difficult to capture ; the larva is, however, very abundant all over the district, and we 

 have bred the butterfly in numbers. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — A common sj^ecies ; our figures of the larva and pupa are from 

 Davidson's original drawings n(jt previously published. We cannot separate the 

 specimens from the Malay Ai'chipelago from the Indian examples. 



Genus PADUKA. 



Paduka, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 375 (1886). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 18 (IS'Jl) ; id. Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1893, p. 85 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Ehves and Edwards, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 219. 



Furewing, vein 12 reaches the costa before the end of the cell, vein 7 emitted a 

 little before upper end of cell, upper discocellular short, nearly in a line with the upper 

 margin of the cell, middle and lower discocellulars nearly erect, the middle one the 

 longer, vein 5 arising nearer to 4 than to 6 ; vein 3 emitted one-third from the 

 lower end of cell, 2 from before the middle, cell less than two-thirds the length of the 

 costa ; costa somewhat arched at its middle, apex somewhat acute, the wing produced 



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