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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Trabala vishnu, Lef., is a widespread insect, the grey larva feeding 
upon Castor, Jam ( Eugenia jambolana ), Sal and the country almond 
(Terminalia catappa ). De Niceville reared this with many others on the 
last in Calcutta (Ind. Mus. Notes, V, p. 107). The moths are large, the 
female larger than the male ; at rest the costal edge of the lower wing 
projects in front of the upper wing and there is a very close resemblance 
to a leaf ; the female is yellow, the male a delicate green. (Plate XLVI.) 
Estigena pardalis, Wlk., is a brown moth, with a very close 
resemblance when at rest to a brown leaf, the projecting palpi forming 
the black twig, the head forewings and projecting costal part of the 
forewing presenting an even surface entirely concolourous with no 
projecting edge and looking like a leaf. The antennse are hidden 
and the whole resemblance is extraordinarily close. (Plate XLI, fig. 
12.) The larva is a long grey larva, with the typical lateral tufts and 
on the thorax short tufts of dense black hair. It is found in the early 
rains and the moth is crepuscular. 
Limacodidje. 
Frenulum present; hindwing with vein 8 anastomosing with 
cell , distinct from 7 : vein 1 c. present. 
The common members of this family have a characteristic facies, 
with a rounded forewing and a somewhat short and rounded hindwing. 
The palpi are short, porrect or upturned, the antennae commonly pecti¬ 
nate in the male, the body rather thickset and short. Most are dull 
coloured in shades of dull brown, but some are more or less coloured in 
bright green. 
The most characteristic features of the family are found in the im¬ 
mature stages. Eggs, so far as known, are flat and scale-like, laid in 
overlapping rows. The larva is slug-like, the head, legs and suckerfeet 
retractile, the ventral surface forming a peculiar smooth sucker-like 
attachment along which the larva glides as a slug does. There are 
three forms of larva ; in one, the body is distinctly segmented above 
and bears spinous tubercles, the spines often very irritant owing to the 
presence of formic acid ( Natada , Thosea, Parasa, Narosa , etc.) ; in another, 
the body is segmented but without tubercles ( Cania , Altha, 
etc.) ; in the third, the body is covered above in a thick smooth skin 
