206 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



two larsje conjoined spots. Hindicing with a very large medkr white patcli with its 

 inaro-in sinuous all round ; abdominal area covered with yellowish hairs. Underside 

 paler. Forewing with the markings as on the upperside. IJindwimj with the white 

 medial patch extending to the abdominal margin from near the costa to one-third 

 above the anal angle, the extension suffused with grey, also extending narrowly to 

 the outer margin, double blackish-brown lunular marks, within the white space at 

 the bases of the sub-median nervules. Cilia blackish, alternated with white. Antennae 

 ])lack ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the wings, whitish on the underside, legs 

 lirown above, whitish beneath. 



Female like the male, but the spots are larger. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? lyV to IjV inches. 



Larva very stout when full grown, and has the habit of resting with the first 

 three segments after the head contracted, so as to give the appearance of being humped 

 about the anterior segments, the relatively small head lying with its apex pressed on 

 the second segment ; the body is flattened ventrally, as the larva always lies closely 

 applied to the resting surface ; the anal segments are sloping, and the margin is 

 closely applied to the leaf, rounded at the extremity ,'and somewhat thickened at the 

 edge ; when at rest, the fourth segment is more than twice as long as the head ; the 

 head is triangular when seen from in front, and narrowly bilobed and small for the 

 body, head black, with the surface rugose and shiny ; each segment slightly swollen 

 around the spiracles ; surface of body glabrous, greasy-looking ; colour of l)ody a 

 watery, very dark indigo-green, the tracheae showing through as white threads ; a dark 

 dorsal pulsating line ; end segment whitish ; segments 2 and 3 yellowish, as well as 

 the margins of segments 4 and 5. Length 37 mm. A good deal more when 

 fully stretched out. 



Pupa cylindrical, very slightly constricted dorsally only, behind thorax, produced 

 into a long conical snout squarely blunt at tip ; the eyes prominent ; the abdomen 

 tapering and ends in a thin, long, more or less tapering, curved cremaster ; the 

 proboscis reaches to the end of the cremaster, the colour is a watery bright green. 

 Length 32*75 mm. 



Habits. — The larva feeds on Curcuma aromatica, the imago rests with its wings 

 closed over the back, but basks generally with them half open ; they are insects of 

 damp and shade, frequenting the beds of nullahs and damp evergreen portions of the 

 district, they are not very strong fliers, and rest often, and always close down near the 

 ground on a convenient upperside of a leaf The larva makes a lax cell by turning 

 over a triangular piece from the edge on to the upper surface of a leaf. We have bred 

 some individuals of Udaspes folus from pupse that have lain over for nearly two months 

 after the rains ; the individuals difi"ered from the pupas that came out in the normal 

 time in having the tip of the forewing decidedly bleached or faded. The larva is to be 



