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subspecies in the Khasi Hills and the Kanara District. In the 

 Kanara District it is not uncommon near the sea-shore, and in 

 the Khasi Hills at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, in forest 

 areas of heavy rainfall in both localities. 



Egg. — Indistinguishable from that of M. belis. 



Larva : — 



Final instar. Head round, surface dull, covered with small, 

 sparse, rounded tubercles. Body dull, the same shape as that of 

 belis, but horn longer, tapering evenly to a fine rounded point 

 bearing two setae, the whole strongly up-curved, or basal 

 half up- curved, distal half down- curved ; closely tuber culate. 

 Segment 2 with a moderately shining saddle -shaped marking 

 covered closely with large tubercles ; anal flap covered sparsely 

 with minute shining tubercles ; rest of body smooth. 



Colour individually variable. In one form the head is 

 fuscous- chocolate, vertex and face slightly paler ; labrum 

 glassy-greenish ; ligula opaque greenish, front edge narrowly 

 white ; basal segment of antenna red, other segments ochreous- 

 red ; mandible whitish, tip narrowly black. Body fuscous- 

 chocolate with a slight violet bloom, segments 3 to 11 with 

 transverse rows of whitish dots along the secondary rings ; 

 tubercles on saddle of 2 and anal flap ochreous- brown ; a dorsal 

 stripe, narrow and black on 2, broader, obscure, purplish- 

 green on remaining segments to base of horn ; a narrow, 

 whitish dorso-lateral stripe from 3 to base of horn, clearly 

 defined, but with irregular edges on 3, 4, 11 and 12, suffused 

 with pinkish rust-colour, more or less obsolescent on median 

 segments, often replaced there by an orange shade ; below this 

 stripe a fuscous stripe on which white dots appear clearly 

 on the median secondary rings ; a narrow orange supra- 

 spiracular and a similar subspiracular stripe, these two stripes 

 joined in the middle of each segment by an orange band, the 

 spiracle lying in the middle of this band ; on segments 7 to 11 

 oblique stripes in the form of triangular, enamel-white 

 patches, filling in the angle formed by the hind margin of 

 each segment and the subspiracular stripe. Horn pale brown, 

 the sides of base whitish, the tubercles black ; legs with 

 basal segment shining black, other segments flesh- colour ; 

 proleg with basal half of shank shining black, distal half 

 shining ochreous, ankles purplish, feet pinkish-grey ; clasper 

 with anterior edge shining black ; venter fuscous-black. 

 Spiracles elongate -oval, central part black bordered with 

 pale brown, the whole with a narrow, shining, pale brown rim. 



Another form of the larva is nearly jet-black, the dorsum 

 black, violet, ochreous or rusty ; the dorso-lateral stripe 

 obsolescent except on 2 and 12 ; the patches round the spiracles 

 very bright orange, the supra-spiracular stripe broad and the 

 same colour ; the oblique stripes narrow r and occurring on 

 all the body-segments from 2 to 11, or wanting on the anterior 



