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above concolorous with the wings, with some yellowish-grey hairs, abdomen with 

 yellowish segmental bands, underside gamboge-yellow. 



Female like the male, the bands usually broader. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-j^^ to If-Q^, $14 inches. 



Larva is broadest at the twelfth segment ; the head is heart-shaped, the vortex 

 being the narrow side, and is slightly Iji-lobed, very finely velute, and chocolate-brown 

 in colour, larger than segment 2. Body cylindrical, depressed at the last 4 segments, 

 squarish at the extremity, segment 2 has a broad, shiny, red-brown collar. Surface 

 covered with small, light, erect hairs. Colour light green, yellowish on segments 

 3 and 4 ; posterior segments yellowish ; a dorsal l^rown line on segment 1 1 to end ; a 

 green dorsal line on segments 2 to 10, the margins of segments 11, 12, 13 are marked 

 with brown. Length, 25 mm. 



Pupa. — Head rounded in front, with a semicircularly rounded boss, which is 

 flattened above and below between the eyes, and covered with long, stift', erect, white 

 hairs ; on the vertex of the head is a sub-dorsal sharp point covered with long 

 adpressed hairs ; eyes prominent, with long erect hairs on hinder margin. Anal 

 segment with a sub-dorsal tuft of long, erect hairs. Spiracular expansion of segment 2 

 raised, oval, moderately large, and brown in colour ; thorax stout, abdomen gradually 

 decreasing in diameter to the end ; cremaster stout, square, square at the extremity, 

 set with strong, red, hooked hairs all round the margin ; surface of body covered 

 with small, stitl' erect hairs ,• colour light olive-green ; shape that of Telicota. Length, 

 14 mm. Fixed by the tail onlv. The imago at rest folds the win2;s over the back. 



The larva makes a cell by gnawing through the midrib half-way up the leaf, 

 separating the top half from the basal half by eating a line across ; the eaten half is 

 joined by the edges and withers, hardening into a perfectly cylindrical curved cell ; 

 this cell is lined inside thickly with silk, drawn under the green half and fastened 

 there, being thus protected from the wet ; the mouth of the cell is at the point where 

 the midrib has been gnawed through. The larva makes a tight and cvlindrical cell 

 at the edge of the leaf by turning over an oblong piece on to the top. 



We bred this insect on Terminalia paniculata from the larva long 1)efore we ever 

 saw one on the wing ; it has been caught twice latterly in Karwar at the cud of the 

 monsoon, but these were the only two occasions it has ever been seen below the 

 ghats near the sea coast. In the cold season we have bred many aljove the ghats as 

 well as in the valley of the Kaliuaddi river, thirty miles from the coast. AVe have 

 once seen the butterfly in the cold weather in what might be called its wild state, 

 and then it had only just emerged from its pupa. It is probably a dusk, if not a night 

 flyer. It inhabits the densest jungles, generally near water. The larva feeds also on 

 Ti'rminalia helerica and Combretum ovallfvUum. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, B. India, Burma, Andamans, Java, Nias, Philippines, 



