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to base of horn, with a diffuse whitish stripe on each side of it ; 

 a narrow white dorso-lateral stripe, edged narrowly above 

 with darker green, on the same segments ; broad white 

 oblique stripes, upper edge diffuse, lower edge sharply defined, 

 on 6 to 11. Horn with basal two-thirds plumbeous-black, 

 distal third orange, tubercles black except at tip, where they 

 are orange ; true legs orange, basal segment suffused reddish ; 

 prolegs with ankles pale pink, feet livid white. Spiracles 

 broadly oval, flush, pale yellow with a broad, reddish-brown 

 central band, the whole narrowly bordered black. 



There is also a dark-coloured form in which the head is 

 dark brown with a russet-ochreous stripe separating face 

 from cheek. Body russet-chocolate dotted with white ; 

 a darker dorsal stripe from 2 to base of horn ; a russet- 

 ochreous dorso-lateral stripe from 3 to base of horn, obscure 

 on 2 ; similarly coloured oblique stripes on 5 to 11, the last 

 running to base of horn, the angles between them and the 

 dorso-lateral stripe also russet-ochreous, forming a series of 

 triangular patches ; horn black, tip shortly orange-red ; 

 true legs russet-ochreous ; shanks of prolegs dark russet, feet 

 whitish. Spiracles pale russet centred with darker russet. In 

 another form the body-colour is dark brown, markings as 

 above. Length 50 mm. ; breadth 5*5 mm. 



Pupa. — Tongue-sheath projecting shortly in front of head ; 

 tip of tongue spatulate ; antenna longer than fore leg and 

 reaching to middle of wing-case. Surface shining, head and 

 thorax smooth, abdomen shallowly pitted ; front bevel of 

 segment 9 with a long channel reaching from dorso-lateral 

 to ventro-lateral region and short, transverse, irregular ridges, 

 the anterior ones more prominent and closer together than 

 the posterior ones. Spiracle of 2 a slit, a slightly raised oblong 

 transverse lobe projecting from the front margin of 3 behind it, 

 the hind margin of 2 emarginate in front of it ; other spiracles 

 elongate-oval. Cremaster triangular, tip emarginate-truncate, 

 a small conical tubercle at each lateral angle of the truncation ; 

 ventral surface longitudinally hollow, with a median keel 

 near base ; surface smooth and shining. Colour dry bone- 

 colour, thorax and wing-case greenish, tongue-sheath and 

 dorsum of abdomen rusty ; wing-case, legs and antenna 

 mottled sparsely with plumbeous-grey ; a dorsal stripe, black 

 on thorax, green on abdomen ; broken, blackish, longitudinal 

 stripes on venter ; hind bevels of segments 8 to 10 brownish ; 

 spiracles black ; cremaster pale rusty, tip black. Length 

 30 mm. ; breadth 8 mm. 



Habits. — Food-plants : Spermacoce hispida Linn., family 

 Rubiacese, and Corchorus capsularis Linn., family Tiliacese. 

 The pupa makes a low knocking note when alarmed. The 

 moth does not appear to be attracted by light. 



