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has never been bred, though Messrs. Davidson, Bell and Aitken once 

 obtained eggs and young larva, but did not record the food-plant. 



48. Neptis kallau ua, Moore. 



Thespesia Lampas, Dalz. and Gibs. (Malvacete). 



Dalbergia confertiflora, Benth. (Legtiminos&s). 



Wagatea spicata, Dalz. (Leguminosse). 



Trema orientalis, Blume (Urticacese) . 



Larva. The larva is very similar to that of N. jumbah, Moore, 

 except that it is furred-looking (minutely spined) all over. The processes 

 are exactly the same as in N. jumbah, except that the subdorsal ones of 

 segment 6 are shortly conical, and segments 7 and 8 have a small sub- 

 dorsal tubercle, lacking in N. jumbah ; all the processes are covered with 

 cylindrical, rather long tubercles ench bearing a rather long bristle in 

 continuation ; the head has the points on the vertex of each lobe rather 

 more accentuated than in N. jumbah, and the surface is entirely covered 

 with the same cylindrical hair-bearing tubercles as the rest of the body. 

 The spiracles are roundly oval, broadly black-bordered, with light 

 brown centres reaching from top to bottom, that is, the black border 

 is thin at the top and the bottom. The arrangement of the coloration is 

 exactly as in iV. jumbah : it is very light brown-pink all over, including 

 the head, except laterally on segments 9 to 14 where it is deep olive - 

 moss-green strongly suffused with rusty orange, except along the borders, 

 and a short dark moss-green diagonal line in the centre, of each segment 

 10 to 12 ; there is the merest tinge of the same olive- moss-green dorsally 

 on segments 5 to 9, with a dorsal thin lighter line ; the head has a thin 

 dark border to the clypeus, and a slightly dark surface towards the 

 vertex, which dark colour, however, is ouly visible between the light 

 tubercles. Length 19 mm., breadth at middle 5*5 mm., the middle 

 being the broadest part. 



Pupa. The pupa is very like that of N. jumbah. The two conical 

 head-points are wide apart, the points at the base of the antenna? (one 

 at the base of each) are half the distance apart and about the same size, 

 the point on the shoulder is small and sharp, the subdorsal conical 

 tubercle on segment 6 is rather large; and there is alow, not accentuated, 

 ridge from spiracle to spiracle on segment 7, which is slightly curved 

 convexly towards segment 8 ; the thorax has a rather highly peaked, 

 laterally flattened apex, and this apex is rounded in outline seen from 

 the side, the hinder slope being at an angle of about 75° to the longi- 

 tudinal axis of the pupa ; the wing outline, that is the expansion outline 

 (the inner margin of the fore wing), is very highly curved: nearly a 

 semicircle, and its apex rises to nearly the same height as the apex of 



