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HESPERIIDiE. 
A broad black marking down each side of the upper part of the face. The head is very boldly 
marked in the fullgrown larva, but in its younger stages and up to about mid-growth the larva has 
the head small and uniform black, the sudden change in size and markings being very striking. 
The larva feeds on bamboo, rolling up the leaves into tubes in the usual manner. 
Pupa, smooth, head produced into a beak; of a general pale green; fixed by the tip of the 
abdomen with a band round the middle, in a bamboo leaf the edges of which are partly drawn 
together with two or three stitches across at intervals, but leaving the pupa more or less exposed 
to view. 
Baoris pellucida, Murray 
This Skipper is not common here, but is very liable to be confused with other species, 
even when carefully examined, and it may perhaps be of more frequent occurrence than is supposed. 
The spots on the underside of the hindwing of this species usually show more or less distinctly on 
the upperside. It has a rapid flight, but often rests for a long time on foliage amongst thick 
vegetation, usually frequenting shady spots in gardens and wooded districts, and not seeming 
particularly fond of flowers. 
Fig. 12, PL XIV is from a ? taken in July, but it seems to be on the wing most 
of the year. The sexes are practically alike. The spots on the wings are not white, but pale 
hyaline ochreous. 
Padraona dara, Koiiar 
This little black-and-yellow Hesperid is very common here, and also over most of 
Kwangtung. It haunts tall grass, undergrowth, bamboo scrub and the outskirts of woods, and is 
very partial to the flowers of many small herbs and shrubs. It has a fairly rapid flight but seldom 
strays very far, often resting on leaves and flowers for a long time with partially-open wings. 
It flies all through the day and seems to enjoy sunshine and shade equally. The sexes are 
very much alike, but the yellow marginal and apical markings in the forewing upperside of the 
$ are smaller than in the £ and the nervules dividing them rather broadly marked in black; there is 
a yellow marking in the disc, cell, but otherwise the rest of the forewing is deep brown. 
Iri the hindwing upperside the yellow spot in the disc, cell is wanting or very nearly obsolete. 
On the underside the sexes are almost alike. 
Fig. 22, PI. XIV is from a £ taken in August, but it is more or less on the wing all the 
year round. 
Egg, hemispherical, smooth, yellowish-white, and appears to be usually laid singly 
on grass-blades, but the larva feeds on bamboo, though it may also feed on some species of grass. 
Larva, just hatched, smooth, white, head shiny black. A thin transverse black line 
on the back of the second segment. A few whitish hairs on posterior segments. Fullgrown, 
fusiform and rather long and slender ; general colour light yellowish-green, the last segment 
greenish and bearing a few short whitish hairs. A distinct median dorsal dark line, due to the 
dorsal vessel seen through the skin. Body alternately smooth and striated transversely. An 
