1900.] Tj. fie Niceville — Butterflies of the Kanara District. 271 



on the upperside of the rounded extremity ; the cremaster is hollowed 

 out at each side at its base as in the pupa of Baracus hampsoni, Elwes 

 and Edwards. Spiracles narrow, oval, small, of a darker yellow colour 

 than the body. The spiracular expansions of segment 2 large, kidney- 

 shaped, with the round side backwards, the edge slightly raised above 

 the body, strainer-shaped as to the hollow area, rugose on the surface, 

 facing forwards and outwards, very conspicuous, dark brown. The 

 surface of the body is covered thickly all over with semi-erect, 

 short, light hairs ; the surface is irregularly and finely rugose. The 

 colour of the pupa is a brownish-red, light, dirty yellow, with a lateral 

 dark smudge along each side of the thorax, as well as some dark spots ; 

 each abdominal segment from 6 to 12 having two transverse rows of 

 small, dark spots. The pupa is stout, very similar in shape to that of 

 Telicota bambusse, Moore. The proboscis does not extend in the least 

 beyond the wing-cases. It is suspended by the tail only. Length 22 

 mm., breadth 5*5 mm. 



Habits. The habits of the larva are those of T. bambusse in as 

 far as the cell-making is concerned. It is just as sluggish, or even 

 more so, in its movements ; and does not excrete any cereous matter in 

 the cell prior to changing to a pupa. 



223. Telicota bambusjs, Moore. 

 Bambusa arundinacea, Willd. (Graminese). 

 Oxytenanthera monostigma, Beddome (Graminese). 



224. Baracus hampsoni, Elwes and Edwards. 

 A very long-leafed soft grass (Graminese). 



This butterfly is given in the second Kanara list as B. septentrionum, 

 Wood-Mason and de Nicevelle, a species restricted by Messrs. Elwes 

 and Edwards to Sikkim and the Shan hills of Upper Burma, but it is 

 found also in Cachar, and in Middle Tenasserim of Lower Burma. 

 B. hampsoni was described from N. Canara, but it occurs also on the 

 Nilgiri Hills. 



225. Taractrocera ceramas, Hewitson. 

 Grasses {Graminese), 



226. Taractrocera mj:vids, Fabricius. 

 This butterfly has never been bred. 



227. Zographetus ogygia, Hewitson. 

 This species also has not been bred. 



