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LEPIDOPTERA. 
The larva of T. tripartita, Mo., has a dorsal and a lateral series of blue spots 
and was found by Forsayeth to feed on the Palas tree. (T. E. S. London, 
Fig-. 335— Natada velutina, larva. (I. M. N.) 
1884, p. 14.) We figure the larva of Natada velutina, Kolb, which feeds 
on mango and has extremely irritant spines. The moth is red-brown with 
an expanse of three inches. Miresa albipuncta, Herr.—Schaff, has a 
silvery spot on the forewing ; its larva was found by Forsayeth on the 
Palas tree ( Butea frondosa). 
Three species of Parasa are 
common and likely to be 
found ; all have green occu¬ 
pying the middle of the 
wing, with more or less 
brown on the body and 
wings. The larva of Parasa 
lepida, Cram., feeds on castor 
and mango; it is also 
recorded as having been 
very abundant on Asphal ( Nephelium longana) in Calcutta (I. M. 
N., IV, p. 21), and de Niceville reared it on the country almond 
Fig. 336—Parasa lepida larva. 
