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HESPERIIDiE. 
The larvae of Telicola augias and Matapa aria are both very frequently attacked by 
species of the parasitic Chalcids, which lay their eggs externally all over the back of the larva. 
The eggs are grayish-white and very shiny, semi-transparent, long-shaped and rounded at the ends, 
attached either by one end or laid on the side; twelve to fifteen eggs seems to be the usual number 
laid on one half-grown larva. The eggs hatch in about two days (in the wet season) the lame 
being dark gray rather shiny-looking or slug-like creatures, which feed externally on the host larva. 
The latter very soon dies and the Chalcid larvas pupate in about a week or ten days from the time 
of hatching. The pupae are shiny dark yellow, attached to the back of the dead host larva or on 
the leaf near by; the flies (tiny, clear-winged and black-bodied insects) emerge in about five— 
seven days, the pupae previously turning black. The Chalcid larvae suck the juices of their victim 
without making any apparent wound in the skin. 
Udaspes folus, Cram . 
This large and very conspicuous Hesperid is common here, flying all day, often 
in bright sunshine, but rather more active in the early morning and evening. It is on the wing 
during the greater part of the year, and occurs almost everywhere, but especially haunts the damp 
localities where the foodplant of the larva grows, the banks of streams overgrown with vegetation, 
and marshy, jungly tracts on the hill-sides. It is rather a wandering insect, with a fast, erratic 
flight and is fond of some kinds of flowers, amongst which is the large purple convolvulus 
Ipomcea palmata , Forsk, which grows so abundantly here. 
Fig. 20, PI. XIV is from a $ taken in August, and it is most numerous in the autumn. 
The sexes are alike. 
Egg, smooth, sub-conical, broadly rounded at the top, with a thin, slightly milled 
rim around the broad flat base. Just laid, of a general dark red or claret colour; later, blotched 
with pale yellowish. Laid singly on either side of leaves of the foodplant of the larva, 
Alpinia nutans , Rose., Nat. Ord. Scitaminece , a very common species of lily here, and found 
in all the warmer parts of Asia. 
Larva, just hatched, of a general orange colour, the head black. Fullgrown, dull dark 
greenish ; a broad, indistinct darker dorsal band due to internal organs showing through the skin ; a 
whitish patch each side of this band on the penultimate segment, due to the mass of trachese 
showing through the skin ; last segment dull yellowish. Spiracles whitish, connected by a lateral 
whitish band, due to the tracheal tubes showing through. Underside pale greenish ; legs and 
prolegs yellowish-white. The anterior articulations of the segments are indistinctly marked 
with ochreous. Head notched at the apex, black. The male larvas (apparently) have two small 
egg-like, light yellow organs, one on each side of the dorsal vessel, on the ninth segment, which 
separate and close together according to the pulsations of the dorsal vessel. These organs appear 
in the pupa to coalesce into one sub-circular yellowish organ ; they are, perhaps, the testes. 
