•^8 Indian Museum Notes. ^ [ YoL III. 



sulphurous fumes. It is seen most on cloudy days and in the morning" 

 and evening when the sun is oiS the bushes, hiding itself in the shade in 

 the heat of the day. It would also be found that a sulphured insect in 

 the open air would easily rid itself of the objectionable powder before 

 the fumes of the same could affect it sufficiently to rendei* it incapable of 

 doing so. 



The larva is wholly bri^jht vernaillion, with the exception of the eyes which are 

 black. The hemelytra become semi-developed in the penultimate stag^e. 



The ova are deposited in the same manner as those of S. theivora, viz., in the 

 interior of the slightly hardened stems of the food plant. I have always found them 

 singly, in which way they diSer from those of that species. They are white and 

 shaped the same, viz., elongate-ovals, slightly curved with the upper end truncate and 

 produced at both angles into white hair-like processes which project through the green 

 bark and are visible from the outside ; these hairs are of the same length as the egg. 

 The eggs become orange yellow before hatchii:g, and the young larvse feed on the 

 interior of the stem on their 6rst appearance. 



Sab., Sikkim and Bhutan Himalayas from 1,500 feet to 5,000 feet (G, G. 

 Dudgeon). Pood plant, the young leaves oiMoesa montana (D.C.), Moesa ramerdacea; 

 (A. D. C.) and Moesa indica (Watt). Some species of Convolvulus i& also aittacked 

 by this or an allied form. 



