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although it appears to breed all the year round. He has also found 

 the larvge feeding in the pods of Orotalaria laburni folia. Kershaw 

 notes the larva, in Hong-Kong, as feeding, when young, on the flowers 

 and buds of Vigna sinensis, but later boring into the seedpods and 

 feeding on the seeds. 



Larva. — First instar (newly-hatched) : Hardly over 1mm. in 

 length, nearly colourless, head black, legs tinted, prothoracic plate and 

 anal plate less tinted, hairs dark ; head 0*2mm. wide, neck hardly 

 longer than head, body not much broader than head. Prothoracic 

 plate broad, about 014mm. ; oval in form, except that it is produced 

 in the middle in front to a blunt angle ; on each side it has, at the 

 middle of the front margin, a large lenticle, at middle a moderate hair 

 (0'035mm.), towards outer end of posterior margin, two very short 

 hairs (O01m.ru.). On each side, in front of it, are three long hairs (about 

 - 09mm.), another rather behind its outer angle; the prothoracic 

 spiracle is large and somewhat raised, has a large lenticle immediately 

 in front of it, and, quite in front, three hairs placed rather in a triangle ; 

 the upper longest (Olmm.), the others shorter (about 0'08mm.) ; then 

 there are two hairs near base of leg — the posterior very long (O'lmm. 

 or 0*1 lmm.), the anterior shorter, about 0*03mm. From the meso- 

 thorax to the 8th abdominal segment there is, on each side (about 

 one-fifth the width of larva apart, across middle line), a dorsal hair 

 (0035mm. long in front, 0-75mm. on the 9th abdominal segment), 

 apparently the seta of tubercle i ; there is no trace of ii detected ; 

 outside and in front of this is a large lenticle on the 2nd-8th 

 abdominal segments ; on the 8th abdominal segment, the hair, lenticle 

 and large spiracle almost touch each other, tubercle iii (?) being 

 absent. On the 1st abdominal segment this lenticle is not seen, 

 but a smaller one occurs a little further out. A hair, that is probably 

 the seta of iii, occurs on the 2nd and 3rd thoracic and the lst-7th 

 abdominal segments, and ranges with the hair on the prothorax close 

 to the posterior outer corner of the plate ; in size, this hair is almost 

 the same as that of i, and appears to have no accessory. The spiracles 

 are rather large and on raised bases. Below the spiracles are two 

 hairs, the longer, about 0°08mm., really very long, is rather low 

 and behind the spiracle, the other, a little in front of the spiracle 

 and only half as far below it as the other, is much shorter (about 

 O'OSmm.) ; these two hairs occur on all the abdominal segments, 1-8, 

 and are represented on the 2nd and 3rd thoracic segments. Lower 

 down, about the middle of the segment, is a long hair (0-09mm.) 

 ( = vi?), and lower still a short one (0-03mm.). The abdominal 

 segments 9 and 10 have no dorsal hairs ; there is an anal plate 

 of irregular shape, roughly circular, about 0-05mm. in diameter, 

 faintly tinted, with no hairs or lenticles detected ; more or less marginally 

 are eight or nine hairs on each side, two very long, one nearly 

 O'lOmm., one or two very minute. On the abdominal segments 

 1 to 6, there is a small lenticle above and a little behind tubercle iii, the 

 one on the 1st abdominal segment is the one already noticed above. 

 A marginal lenticle occurs apparently on the 8th abdominal. The 

 prolegs have a front and back pair of hooks ; the front has nearly 

 always a rather larger and then a smaller one ; the posterior is 

 usually made up of the large hooks only, but a smaller is present 

 sometimes ; the anal claspers are the same, the hooks being slightly 

 larger ; the claw r s of the true legs are sharp, and those of the third 



