270 L. de Niceville-— "Butterflies of the Kanara District. [No. 2, 



This butterfly is given in the second Kanara list as Halpe moorei, 

 Watson, as well as H. ceylonica, the former appears to me to be a 

 synonym of the latter. In describing H. moorei, Watson does not refer 

 to H. ceylonica, except to give it in his list of the species of the genus 

 as a distinct species. 



221. Halpe honorei, de Niceville. 

 Dendrocalamus str ictus, Nees (Graminese) . 



222. Halpe hyrtacus, de Niceville. 

 Oxytenanthera monostigma, Beddome (Gramiuece). 

 Ochlandra stridula, Thwaites (Graminede). 



Larva. The head of the larva is the same shape as those of the 

 genus Baoris ; it is nearly round, slightly indented on the top, convex 

 on the face, thick through, rugose as to the surface, and finely hairy all 

 over, the hairs rather short ; the clypeus and about the jaws, the 

 whole margin of the head as well as all the hinder part, aud a 

 central broad band — all very dark brown; the rest of the head 

 dirty yellow. Body of the usual shape of Baoris, the anal segment 

 rounded at the extremity ; that segment covered all over with star- 

 shaped reddish-brown spots, from each of which springs a short 

 seta. Spiracles small, oval, a little darker than the colour of the 

 body. Surface of the body covered with short, erect, fine, colourless 

 hairs, which are rather longer on the anal margin than elsewhere. 

 The colour of the larva is a transparent greenish dirty yellow, with a 

 brown tinge on the hinder segments ; a dorsal dark green line. The 

 body is finely folded at the margins of the segments. Length 28 

 to 38 mm. 



Pupa. The pupa has the head bowed, square in front, perfectly 

 parallel-sided, much broader transversely to the length of the pupa than 

 in the direction of that length, nearly as broad as the thorax at the 

 shoulders; there is a slight boss between the eyes, with eiect, rather 

 long, light hairs in front and around the eyes. Segment 2 narrow, 

 parallel-sided. Thorax only slightly humped, its front slope in the 

 same line of ascent as the head and segment 2, twice the diameter of 

 segment 2 (in the sense of the pupal height) at the apex, evenly convex, 

 rounded at the shoulders ; the apex is the highest and the shoulders 

 the broadest part of the body. The transverse section of the body is 

 circular from the shoulders to the anal end, which narrows off into the 

 rather short and triangular cremaster ; the cremaster has a rounded 

 extremity, is perfectly flat beneath, nearly perfectly wedge-shaped, with 

 feebly developed dorsal sustensor ridges, and a tuft of suspensory hairs 



