LEPIDOPTERA. 



435 



It lives in folded leaves and wriggles verj actively when disturbed. 

 Pupa brown or red-brown, in the leaves folded by the larva. Total 

 life-cycle, egg 2 — 3 days, larva 13 [8 days, pupa 6 days. 



Food plants. — Cotton, Hibiscus spp. 



Status, A minor pest of native Cottons, sometime serious on 

 exotic varieties (Cambodia, Caravonii a I. 



Control. -The folded leaves are easily seen and the caterpillars 

 collected or crushed by hand. 



GLYPHODES C/ESALIX Wlk. 



Glyphodes casalis, Wlk., Cat. XVII, 4Q9 ; Hmpsn., Faun. End. 

 Moths, IV, 356. 



.ill. — Glyphodes ccesalis. I the natural 



Distribution. South Kanara, Godavari. 



Lifrhistory. -The caterpillar is pinkish, each segment b 

 with numerous black flattened horny warts from which arise single 

 short bristly hairs; head and prothoracic shield yellow. Pupation 

 in a silken cocoon ; pupa red-brown ; pupal period about 7 days. 



Foodplant. Jak. 



Status. -A minor pest, the caterpillar boring into flower buds 

 and young fruits. 



GLYPHOD und. 



Eudioptis indica, Saunders. T.E.S. (1851), [63, t. \2. \\. 5—7. 

 Glyphodes indica, Hmpsn.. Faun. Ind. Moths. IV, 360; Lefroy, Ind. 

 bis. Pests, p. 105. f. 187; Ent. Mem. Agri. Dept, Ind., I, 213 

 Ind. Ins. Life, p. 518. 

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