APPENDIX. 
Hestina assimilis, Linn. 
Egg, sub-globular, flattened at the base, very finely striated or ridged axially ; general 
colour pale green, the ridges yellowish-white. Laid singly on the upperside of leaves of Celtis 
sinensis , Pers., Nat. Ord. Urticacece, a tree found all over China except the extreme north ; also 
in Japan. 
Larva, just hatched, pale yellowish-green, head dark brown, the horns not showing ; 
posterior bifid. A fine, darkish dorsal line. Dorsal surface slightly sprinkled with a few short 
whitish hairs. When the young larva is about J inch in length the horns on the head show plainly. 
Fullgrown, limaciform (much the shape of larvae of Char axes) of a general rather dark green 
irrorated with light yellow, each speck of yellow centred with a very short blackish bristle, giving 
the larva a slightly rough appearance. A dorsal pair of light yellow small processes on the third 
segment ; a still smaller pair on the sixth segment ; a rather large pair on the eighth seg., broad 
transversely at the base and slightly pinkish there ; a small pair on the eleventh seg. All these 
processes are slightly tuberculous and spiny with very small bristles ; posterior bifid, the tips 
yellowish. A very indistinct and interrupted light yellow lateral line just above the prolegs each 
side, and above this an indistinct diagonal line on each segment each side. Short, sparse whitish 
hairs in a lateral row each side above the legs, the hairs springing from the diagonal yellow 
markings. Head darkish green with light yellow vertical markings down the face ; °horns dark 
green, shortly branched at the tips and with a few small snags up the stems, the snags light yellow, 
brown at the tips and stubbly with short black hairs at the tips only. The branched tips of the 
horns are brown. Horn-stems rough and slightly sprinkled with a few very short bristles. A row 
of four or five small yellow processes down each side of the face, with a few still smaller prickles 
continuing round the top of the head. Legs pale yellow ; prolegs and underside glaucous green. 
The tips of the bifid posterior are usually kept close together, appearing much like a single 
projection. 
Pupa, general colour rather dark green, with a whitish or hoary appearance over much of 
the surface. Abdomen very broad and compressed laterally, forming a sharp dorsal ridge, each 
0 The horns are not solid, but tubular from tip to base ; the exterior wall of hard chitinous substance, the interior 
channel filled with soft tissue communicating at the base with the interior of the head. In the fresh larva the horns may be 
snapped near the base and drawn away, exposing the core of tissue. 
