260 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



hairs, these hairs make the basal portions of both wings look much ^^aler than the outer 

 portions. Cilia grey, with a brown base. Underside pale greyish-brown. Forewing 

 with the hinder marginal space pale, the spots as above. Ilindwing with a large 

 blackish anal patch and a dull whitish spot above it. Palpi ochreous-grey, with a black 

 line down the sides, thorax grey beneath, legs ochreous, abdomen above and beneatli 

 pale ochreous-yellow, with black segmental bands, on the upper side its basal third is 

 covered with brown hairs. 



Female, like the male above and below, the basal ochreous-grey hairs on the 

 upperside are more ochreous than in the male, and the semi -hyaline elongated spots 

 larger, the middle one oblique and the hinder marginal space on the underside is 

 whiter. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 ro to 2^^ inches. 



Larva. — A hesperid larva was found on the Fagoo Tea Estate in the Western 

 Duars at 1,500 ft. elevation above the sea. It had formed the usual case or shelter by 

 webbing the edges of a leaf together. Superficially it was somewhat like the figure of 

 the larva of Ilasora hhadra, Moore, given in Hoi-sfield and Moore's Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. 

 Company, but was without the long hairs. Length rather more than an inch. Colour 

 velvety-black, with transverse patches of yellow striations on the middle of each 

 segment divided dorsally by a black line. The segmental interspaces are yellowish, 

 and the front of each segment is black, with a lateral row of yellow spots, one on each 

 segment, those black portions are broadest on the second, third, fifth, seventh, ninth 

 and eleventh segments. Head yellow-ochre with two transverse rows of rectangular 

 black spots, five in each row, those of the lower row being somewhat rounded and more 

 separated ; the two first of the upper row being conjoined. There is also a lower black 

 spot out of line on each side. The larva feeds on a species of Ficus, called by the 

 Nipalese " Barrha." 



Pupa, formed in the same manner as that of RhoiMlocampta henjaminii, Guerin, that 

 is to say, within a rolled-up leaf, across the inner portion of which, some thick white 

 webs or strands of silk are stretched ; round the abdomen the web is fastened in a way 

 I did not notice before. 



As I was fortunate enough to observe the change, I saw that, although the anal 

 prolegs of the larva were attached to a tuft or pad of silk in the usual way and remained 

 so until nearly the whole skin had been shufiled ofi", yet when the last segment had to be 

 taken out the pupa drew it entirely away from the skin and lifted it over the empty 

 skin, and by a series of contortions similar to those made by an insect in depositing 

 an egg, it soon reattached its anal segment or tail to the web, throwing away the cast- ofi" 

 skin by wriggling its body about. When it had first changed, most of the black mark- 

 ings of the larva were still present, although reduced to spots, the ground colour being 

 dark yellowish. The head has a distinct knob. After a few hours, the pupa having 



