2(38 L. de Niceville — Butter/lies of the Kanara District. [No. 2, 



217. Suastus gremius, Eabricius. 

 Areca Catechu, Linn. (Palmeas), 

 Caryota urens, Linn. (Palmeas). 

 Phoenix sylvestris, Roxb. (Palmeas). 



Calamus pseudo-tenuis, Becc. and Hook. f. (Palmeas). 

 Cocos nucifera, Linn. {Palmeas). 



218. Pedestes submaculata, Staudinger. 

 Calamus pseudo-tenuis, Becc. and Hook. f. (Palmeas). 



This butterfly appears in the second Kanara list, p. 47, n. 206, as 

 Isma submaculata, Staudinger. In Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., vol. xiv, p. 230 

 ( 1897), Messrs. Elwes and Edwards place it in the genus Plastingia, in 

 which it was originally described, but say that they have not seen a 

 specimen of it. On page 193 they describe Pedestes maculicomis as a 

 new species from Pulo Laut, near Borneo. In my opinion this species 

 s a synonym of P. submaculata. In my collection there are speci- 

 mens of it from Kanara, Cachar, the Daunat Range of Middle Tenas- 

 serim in Burma, Perak in the Malay Peninsula, and Pulo Laut. It was 

 originally described from Palawan in the Philippines. In spite of 

 the key to the species of the genus Pedestes given by Messrs. Elwes 

 and Edwards on p. 193, I am unable to separate P. fuscicornis, described 

 by those gentlemen also from Pulo Laut, from their P. maculicomis. 



Egg. The egg is laid on the underside of the leaves. It is dome- 

 shaped, standing on a narrow band. It has sixteen " meridians " 

 which start from the top of the band and run towards the top of the 

 dome ; these meridians are thin and raised above the surface. The 

 surface is very finely lined transversely to the meridians. The colour 

 is greenish, with the meridians brown. As the egg found was empty, 

 the larva having eaten its way out of the top and made a large hole, 

 the fact as to whether the meridians meet at the top of the egg or not 

 cannot be stated. Breadth 0'8 mm. 



Larva. The head is semi-elliptical in shape, slightly rough as to 

 surface, somewhat shiny, very light yellow-brown in colour, with a 

 dark brown band round the back (not visible from the front view) just 

 reaching the jaws ; a brown medial line splitting down the sides of the 

 clypeus, and a medial brownish line, broadest in the middle of its 

 length, on each lobe of the face, starting from the clypeus and diverging 

 from the medial line of the face and nearly reaching the vertex of the 

 lobe ; the jaws and tlie lower parts of the clypeus dark brown ; the head 

 is much larger than the second segment. Body broadest at segment 5, 

 sub-cylindrical in shape ; the last segment, ending semicircularly, is 

 sloping and rather large, slightly corrugated on the dorsum towards the 



