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Blastobasid^. 



Blastohasis crassifica, Meyr. 



Meyr., Exot. Micr. I 595-596. 



Mr. Fletcher. Bred at Pusa in March from pods of Crotalaria juncea. Probably a 



refuse-feeder, eating dried seeds rather than attacking the crop in the 

 field. Not noted as a pest. Also occurs at Coimbatore. 



Prosintis florivora, Meyr. 



Meyr., Exot. Micr. I. 598. 



Bred at Pusa in June and August from larvae feeding on mango in- 

 florescence. Not noted as a pest. 



Heliodinid^. 



Slathmopoda theoris, Meyr. 



Meyr., B. J. XVII, 410-411 (1906) [Moloscelis] ; I. I. L. p. 537 ; 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 96. 



Reared at Pusa from sunflower-heads. The larvse are probably 

 merely rubbish-feeders, eating the dried remains of the flowers and not- 

 the seeds. Also reared at Coimbatore from palm-fibre chewed by 

 Oryctes grub, from rubbish, and from cholam heads. 



Not a pest. 



Stathmo'poda sycastis, Meyr. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 251. 



The larva of this species occurs in cultivated figs in the Peshawar 

 Valley in May and June, the moth emerging in July. The larva? are 

 well-known locally, so much so that the country-folk are chary of eating 

 the fruit on account of the presence of the larvae. 



Eretmocera imfactella, Wlk. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting p. 296. 



Occurs throughout the Plains of India, Burma and Ceylon. 

 In Bihar the larva webs up Amaranthus plants, especially single 

 plants, sometimes badiy, and eats back the tops. 



