54 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



meets on the back and continues along the sides to the vent in map-like streaks. 

 Below the lati'ral inflation from the 8th to the loth segment is a narrow white line 

 even in width but interrupted, which from tlie 7th segment to the head becomes 

 suffused into the white area above. True legs and anal claspers pale green, the other 

 claspers yellowisli ; remainder of the lower surface pale bluisli-white. Third Moult. 

 ■ — August 27th. General colour now vivid green, with the thoracical shield very 

 marked. Head very much larger than 2nd segment, and pale green. The 2nd to 

 5th segments raised, and capped with a shield, which just slightly protrudes over 

 the head. In outline the shield is somewhat pear-shaped, narrow towards the head, 

 and bulging out considerably on tlie 4th segment ; in colour it is of a little darker 

 shade of green in front than the general coloration of the body, and powdered with 

 pale slaty-greyish on the hind part. There is a dark well-defined ocellus on either 

 side, just above the rim on the 4tli segment, consisting of a black spot, with a narrow 

 white one, followed by a larger reddish-brown one, which, in turn, is narrowly-edged 

 below with white. The whole of tlie fore-part of the shield is beautifully variegated 

 with fine black lines, twisted into loops up to the 4th segment, and from thence to 

 the hind-part are grey irrorations. The most central one of these is usually tlie 

 most clearly defined in outhne, and in many cases connects the ocelli, like the bi'idge 

 in a pair of spectacles. The rim of the shield in front, and up to the ocelli, is pale 

 yellowish-green, margined narrowly with black. Down the sides of the body are 

 four oblique lines of a darker green than the ground-colour, slightly margined above 

 with yellow, the first of which commences on the 7th segment above the lateral 

 stripes, and crosses the 8th and 9tli segments ; the second is on the 10th segment ; 

 and the third on the 11th segment; these three lines or streaks terminate on the 

 back, but do not join; the fourth is on the 12tli segment and joins with the 

 protruding anal tubercled skin-fold of that segment. These markings vary con- 

 siderably ; in some individuals they are very conspicuous, in others almost absent ; 

 in some also there is a fine black streak running through the above markings. The 

 whole of the upper surface is more or less irrorated with yellow, which gives the 

 general colouring a very vivid green appearance. There are, also, a dorsal and 

 lateral row of very minute slate-coloured spots, which are carried on through the 

 shield. The colouring at the divisions of the segments (only made apparent when 

 the animal is in motion) is pale slaty-grey, except that portion between the 5th and 

 6th segments behind tlie shield, which is deep velvety-black. This -.also lies hidden, 

 and is only exhibited on the animal being alarmed, when the thoracical shield is 

 raised in a very snake-like aggressive attitude, and the black division i-olled out as 

 it were from under the shield. The under-parts are pale bluish-white ; the 

 true legs pale green, the claspers semi-transparent, the anal claspers being paler 

 whitish." 



