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Show 292 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Mar. 1 7, AGARISTID^E. 34. EUSEMIA AFFLICTA. Eusemia afflicta, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1875, p. 118. Poona, June and September. 35. EUSEMIA CONTRACTA. Eusemia contracta, Butler, Ent. M o . Mag. 1875, p. 117. Belgaum. 36. iEGOCERA VENULIA. i Phalena venulia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 107, ph 165. f. D. Poona, September. CHALCOSIID.<E. 37. CHALCOSIA AFFINIS. Gynantocera affinis, Guer. Voy. Delessert, Hist. Nat. p. 86, pi. f. 2.' Belgaum. NYCTEMERIDJE. 38. NYCTEMERA LACTILINEA. Phalcena geometra lactilinea, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 47, pi. f. E. Belgaum. LITHOSIID^E. 39. LACIDES FICUS. Noctua ficus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. pp. 27-62. Poona, February and August; Belgaum ; Mahableshwur; Bombay, August to November. 40. DAMALIS ALCIPHRON. Noctua alciphron, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 58, pi. 133. f. E. Bombay, August to November. Very plentiful. 41. DAMALIS STRIGIVENATA. Damalis strigivenata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 321. Poona ; Belgaum ; Bombay, October and November. 42. DAMALIS SERICEA. Hypsa sericea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 3. Poona, November; Bombay. Larvae of all the above four species feed on Ficus reliyiosa and several other kinds of Ficus ; larvae change their skins twice * t 8 days' interval from the date of hatching, length about 1| in. ; they very much resemble each other, but the larva of L. ficus can be distinguished by a yellow spot on the side, rather in rear of the centre ; they are regular night-feeders, hiding on the lower sides of the leaves in the body of the trees during the daytime; they make a cocoon |