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posterior margin, and with a small, lateral, round, tubercular, light yellow- 

 brown spot. All the segments are clearly distinguished. The spiracles 

 are of the ordinary size, rather round (actually slightly oval), light 

 yellowish-brown in colour. Each segment has a good many colourless 

 glassy-looking spots towards its front margin ; these spots are small 

 but are clearly visible under a lens. The surface of the body is finely 

 frosted and dull, destitute of hairs except round the margin of segment 

 14. General colour of the larva bluish-greeny-white, beneath yellowish- 

 green. Total length 22 mm. 



Pupa. Like that of Suastiis gremius, Fabricius. Head as broad, 

 if not broader, than at the shoulders, and is, together with the 

 segment 2, very large for the pupa, and is slightly bowed. Thorax rather 

 short, strong, couvex, but only slightly humped. Body of the same 

 breadth from the shoulders to segment 8 and then tapering to the 

 end; constricted between segments 2 and 3 ; the body is circular in 

 transverse section from segment 3 to segment 13. Spiracular ex- 

 pansion of segment 2 large, nearly flush with the thorax, semicircular 

 in shape (the straight side facing forwards) ; dark red-brown in colour. 

 Spiracles small, linear, dark red-brown. Surface of the body finely 

 rugose. Eyes and cremaster covered with short, erect hairs ; surface 

 of pupa bearing short, erect hairs as seen under a lens, with slightly 

 longer hairs on the posterior portion. Cremaster hexagonal, small, with 

 next to no suspensory hairs, brown. The pupa has the head green with 

 a shade of brown, the thorax is green, and the abdomen waxy yellow ; 

 the surface is covered with a white powder. The cell in which it is 

 formed is tightly closed, and the pupa is attached very slightly by the 

 tail only. 



Habits. The habits of the larva are similar to those of S. gremius, 

 the cell being made tightly, clothed with silk inside, and the edges 

 eaten in cren illations. The larva eats above the cell towards the 

 point of the leaf leaving the midrib, and pupates in the cell. Great 

 quantities of old cells are found, pointing to the fact that the larvae 

 are very liable to the attack of enemies. The food-plants were 

 always found in dark shady evergreen jungle. The pupa-cell is cut 

 free by the larva before pupation and falls to the ground, and no pupa 

 is therefore ever found except among rubbish at the foot of the plant. 



219. Halpe astigmata, Swinhoe. 

 This species has never been bred. 



220. Halpe ceylonica, Moore. 

 Bambusa aruudinacea, Willd. ( Qramineae) . 

 Oxytenanthera monostigma, Beddome (Graminese). 



