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from beautiful red semi-looping larvae found eating the leaves of Abutilon 
indicum ; the first two pairs of prolegs are reduced; pupation takes place 
in the soil and the moth appears in the rains. T. tropica, Guen., is 
yellowish, with olive-green markings at the base of the wing, the 
apical half with a broad band of deep olive-brown, this being much 
darker in the female than in the male. (Plate XXXVIX.) The larva 
feeds on bariar ( Sida rhombi folia) ; it is green with small yellow and 
white spots and has three pairs of prolegs. Its attitude on the plant 
is very striking, the body curved and rigid, the thorax approached 
to the apex of the abdomen ; it clings thus to the margin of the leaf. 
Tar ache irnbuta, Wlk., is darker yellow, the outer area of the wing 
deep red-brown. T. crocata, Guen., is still darker but may be known 
by the yellow or orange hindwing; its larva has been reared from jute 
(Corchorus), whose leaves it eats. 
Xanthoptera nigripalpis, Wlk., is a small ochreous moth with the 
reniform dark and the cilia black spotted, one of the many moths found 
commonly in thick grass and low vegetation in the plains in September. 
Naranga diffusa, Wlk., is a pretty moth, the male dark purple red, the 
female yellow with red bands, whose larva feeds on rice leaves ; the 
larva is a semi-looper, green with a lateral yellow stripe ; it pupates 
on the soil without a cocoon. 
Earias, included by Hampson in the Arctiidce, is now placed in 
this sub-family. It includes three common species, feeding on Malvacece. 
E. insulana, Boisd., has the forewing green, rarely with an ochreous tinge; 
it feeds on the seeds and shoots of cotton and bhinda (Hibiscus esculen- 
tus), as does the larva of Earias fabia, Stoll., in which the moth is buff, 
with or without a green wedge down the forewing. Both are fully 
described as the Spotted Bollworms of India and are pests of the first 
magnitude. E. chromataria, Wlk., has the forewing green with some 
bright orange and brown suffusion and its larva feeds on cultivated 
Hibiscus, and has been reared from jute seed-capsules. The habit 
of the larvae of boring into shoots and seed pods is unusual and 
notable for members of this group. (Plate XXXVIII.) 
Eublemma includes several common species in which the palpi are 
upturned and reach the vertex of the head. The genus is remarkable 
for including species which feed upon plants as well as species which 
