56 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Larva, when full-fed, O'GZ of an inch in length, somewhat dark green in colour 

 (of darker shade than most Lycsenid larvae), smooth and shining, the whole upper 

 surface covered with minute pits to be seen only under a strong magnifying glass. 

 The head is very small and retractile as usual, and of a pale green colour, the second 

 segment is unmarked, the third to sixth segments inclusive have some obscure reddish- 

 brown dorsal blotches, the three following segments are unmarked, the tenth to twelfth 

 segments have somewhat similar blotches to those on the third to sixth segments, but 

 they are more distinct and darker in shade. There is a pale yellow lateral line just 

 about the legs. All the segments are irregularly and broadly pitted at the sides ; 

 these pits seem more or less to assume the form of a longitudinal sub-dorsal depression, 

 l)elow which to the lateral line the colour of the insect is slightly paler. The whole 

 larva is much depressed, somewhat wider than high, and seems to gradually increase 

 in breadth to the tenth segment, the last segment is almost as large and rounded. 

 The larva varies greatly in colour and markings, some being pale green throughout and 

 unmarked, others again are reddish-brown throughout. It feeds in Calcutta on 

 Nephelium litchi, Lamb., Cassia fistula, Linnaeus, and Heynea trijuga, Eoxb., and not 

 improbably, as it feeds on so many bushes, it will eat others. Dr. Forel identifies the 

 ant which attends the larva as (Ecophylla smamgdina. Fabricius, the large red and 

 green ant which makes immense nests of growing leaves in trees. 



Pupa, • 4 of an inch in length, of the usual Lycsenid shape, the tail pointed, the 

 thorax slightly humped, and ending in a somewhat sharp ridge-line on the back ; it is 

 coloured pale ochreous, and bears a prominent diamond-shaped mark posteriorly. It is 

 smooth throughout, reddish-brown, sprinkled with minute darker spots (de Niceville). 



Habitat.— India, Burma, Malacca, Borneo, Amboina, Cape York, Australia. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from Orissa, Ganjam, Sikkim, Andamans, 

 Elwes from Naga and Karen Hills, Watson from the Chin Hills, Davidson, Bell and 

 Aitkcn from Karwar ; we have received many examples from the Khasia Hills, and 

 have it in our collection also from Silhet, Kulu, Borneo and New Guinea. 



Note. — de Niceville puts Pseudodipsas lycsenoides, Felder, from Amboina, as a 

 synonym to emolus, at p. 47 of his vol. iii. ; he says: "Felder's lycsenoides is a very 

 curious species, in which the hindwing has two short but well formed tails ; Hewitson 

 says that this species belongs to the genus Lycsenesthes , Moore, but the tails look to me 

 to Ije too substantial to bring into that genus." We have the type of lycsenoides before 

 us, through the courtesy of the Hon. Walter Eothschild ; it is a true Lycsenesthes, as 

 Hewitson said. Felder's figure is misleading, the specimen has no tails, what the artist 

 mistook for tails are the usual fascicles of long hair-like scales or cilia common to all 

 species of the genus Lycsenesthes. Felder's lycsenoides is, however, quite distinct from 

 emolus, being much paler on the underside, almost exactly of the colour of Nacaduha 

 macropthalma, the linear markings are pure white, and the discal Ijand is complete and 



