CHROMIS. 



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the right side a non-dentate projection pointing proximad and 

 at the left side a short process ending in some teeth. 



§>. Eighth tergite feebly chitinized mesially, sinuate. 

 Vaginal plate membranaceous except rounded-triangular 

 post -vaginal part ; orifice large, without special armature. 



Hab. Ceylon, Andaman Islands and Malaya. Fairly 

 common. 



Larva. — Horn long and straight in early instars, down- 

 curved in later instars. Colour brown or green ; a pale line 

 from segment 6 to 11, the area below this line pale in the brown 

 form ; an ocellus with white centre, surrounded by blue in the 



Fig. 67. — Chromis Hiibn. 

 A, C. erotus erotus (Cram.), 9; B, 10th segment, lateral view ; 



0, harpe ; D, penis-stieath. 



green form by green in the brown form, on segments 4 to 11, 

 all of equal size ; pale oblique stripes on segments 5 to 11. 



Pupa. — Similar to that of Deilephila ; cremaster bifid, each 

 process again divided into two horizontal, conical, pointed 

 processes, the external ones ending again in two hooks, of which 

 one curves ventrad the other dorsad ; tongue -case carinate. 

 A series of black stigmata! spots. 



Habits. — Not known. 



