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Seen crawling around in rainy weather.
Identified as X. transversa later stage instar with reference to the following:
1) “Early Stages of Japanese Moths in Color” Vol. 1 (1965; Akira Mutuura et al., revised by Syuti Issiki).
2) The Moths of Borneo (https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-13/bagisarinae/bagisarinae_1_1.php)
3) Taiwanese specimens: http://gaga.biodiv.tw/myweb/9610px/994.htm
4) Indian specimens: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333185607_Faunistic_studies_on_the_genus_Xanthodes_Lepidoptera_Noctuidae_Bagisarinae_associated_with_Bhendi_ecosystem_of_Karnataka
5) Japanese specimens: http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Bagisarinae/Xanthodes_transversa.html
In “Early Stages of Japanese Moths in Color”, X. transversa larva is described as having two types: Type 1 (black pattern) and Type 2 (red pattern). Type 1 is the form with a bright yellow mid-dorsal line and black spots on both sides of the line, as well as a prominent yellow line joining the spiracles on each side. This is the form shown in this observation as well as in the description and images shown in sources above. Type 2 does not have the mid-dorsal yellow line, but a series of elongated reddish-orange spots lateral to the mid line of the body. It resembled the specimens reared by ritafoo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111647741
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111647404

By comparing with the rearing record of X. intersepta (Kit Law: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92358083), later stage Type 1 X. transversa larva can be distinguished from the former by the following features:
1) X. intersepta has only a very weak and discontinuous line joining the spiracles, as compared to the very prominent yellow spiracular line in Type 1 X. transversa.
2) X. intersepta (but not X. transversa) has a series of yellowish spots located just below (ventral) to the black spots along the body.