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same evening the insects laid about 30 eggs singly and in batches on both sides of 

 the blades of grass indiscriminately. The eggs are almost white, shining, and 

 semitransparent. On Sept. 5th, one female died, and her body on being opened was 

 found to be quite empty and devoid of eggs. On Sept. 6th, the other female died, 

 and most of the eggs hatched. As usual the young larvce made their first meal off the 

 empty egg-shells. They are pale green with a black head bearing two very obtuse 

 black horns on the crown, and with the caudal processes veiy small. Down to the 

 last change of skin, the larvce are pale green without any conspicuous markings ; 

 after that change they become pale reddish, finely mottled with greenish, ochreous, 

 and other colours, the general effect being somewhat that of the brownish colour of 

 a grass stalk to which the bases of the dead leaves are attached. At this stage, the 

 larvae remain chiefly amongst the bases of the grass stalks, where they are very 

 diflBcult to be seen. When full grown, they are about 1^ inches long ; the first 

 segment is somewhat narrower than the head, the body gradually thickens to the 

 middle, and then equally regularly and gradually tapers to the anal segment, which 

 is furnished with two short, slightly divergent pointed processes or tails ; there is 

 a very faint greenish dorsal line, with about six obscure darkish oblique streaks 

 at the sides, the four middle ones of which are the most prominent; the head is 

 blackish, armed with two divergent, blunt, conical horns, which are obscure reddish 

 like the body; both head and horns are thickly set with small rough tubercles, and 

 the face is covered with short hairs ; the whole of the body is very rough or rugose, 

 and very thickly set with minute tubercles ; the legs and underside of the body are 

 coloured like the upper surface. The jntj^a is usually pale semitransparent green 

 without markings, quite smooth, with the thorax very convex and constricted at the 

 base of the abdomen, and with the spiracles black. I obtained one differently 

 coloured pupa : this was rich reddish-brown, with the spiracles prominently bright 

 yellow. The larvae turned to pupsB between Sept. 28th and October 4th, and the 

 butterflies emerged between October 5th and October 12th. The imagines, though 

 variable, were all nearer to M. indistans than to M. mineus, while the majority were 

 true M. indistans.'" 



Mr. "W. Doherty (Journ. Asiatic Society Bengal, ]886, p. 114) gives the 

 description of a caterpillar, assigned by him to be that of M. mineus, but whether of 

 the wet or dry-season brood is not stated, as follows : — " Caterpillar taken by me in a 

 meadow at Sonakala, in Southern Orissa. It is fusiform, brownish -green, tapering 

 greatly at both ends. Head rather large, finely pubescent, dark fuscous marbled 

 with paler, a smooth plate in the middle of the forehead, two short, ro.ightriano-ular 

 horns; neck greatly constricted; body rough and prickly rather than pubescent, 

 finely wrinkled transversely, six wrinkles to each segment, the second twdce as broad 

 as the others ; a faint darker dorsal line chiefly visible posteriorly; a lateral line of 

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