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LEPIDOPTEBA INDIO A. 
Larva shaped like wood-lice, extremely sluggish for the most part, and look in 
many cases more like a Coccus or some other vegetable excrescence than caterpillars, 
some are smooth, many clothed with a soft down, some with fascicles of short bristles, 
or regularly disposed tubercles, and a few, hairy generally ; several are regularly 
corrugated dorsally, and others prominently humped in one or two places; some 
larvae of Lycsenidse are scutate, being furnished with a hard flattened shield on the 
dorsal region of the three last segments, which is used by the larvae to plug up the 
holes in the fruits in the interior of which they live. The majority of the larvae feed 
on the young leaves, buds, and flowers of trees, bushes and low-growing plants. 
Lampides , Virachola and Deudonx , however, feed on the interior of fruits of several 
kinds, some feed upon the seed pods of leguminous plants; these latter have very 
long necks, so that they can reach far into the interior of the pods (de Niceville). 
Pupa. —Usually very blunt, never furnished with spines or processes, though 
they are often densely covered with short hairs or bristles; much rounded 
anteriorly, the thorax rounded and often humped, generally dull coloured, of various 
shades of red or brown or green. 
Sub-Family GERYDIN^. 
Imago. —Coloration dull, brown or blackish-brown, white or marked with white 
in most females ; wings mostly elongate and delicate. Forewing with vein 8 absent. 
Hindwing with all the veins present; outer margin of both wings sometimes uneven, 
sometimes dentate ; abdomen slender, usually extending beyond the wings ; antennae 
half the length of the costa of forewings; club gradual; palpi with the third joint 
long and slender ; legs long, abnormal, the first joint of the tarsi elongate. The 
genitalia of the male, Doherty says, are peculiar, the prehensores long, thin and plate¬ 
like, resembling the valves of the Papilionidse. 
Egg. —Less than one-third as high as wide, delicately and somewhat obsolescently 
reticulate, sometimes carinate, flat above and below (Doherty). 
Larvae and Pupe unknown. 
Genus GERYDUS. 
Gerydus, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 23, fig. 2 (1836). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 205 (1884p 
de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 21 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 288 
(1907). 
Symetha, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 59, pi. 2, fig. 2 (1828). 
Miletus , Westwood (part, nec Hiibner), Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 502 (1852). 
Imago. —Eyes naked, palpi slender, scaled, not fringed in front, third joint long, 
antennae less than half the length of the costa of forewings, club long and slender, abdomen 
of the male with a sub-anal tuft of stiff hairs; legs abnormal, first joint of tarsi 
