LEPIDOPTER \. 



449 



fit terusia viri 



Distribution. - Nilgiris. 

 Wynaad. 



Lifehistory — Not known. 

 Probably very similar to 

 t hat of //. cingala. 



Foodplants. I • 



Status. An occasional 

 local pest ot tea, tin- cater- 

 pillars sometimes stri] 

 the bus 



Control. -Collection of the caterpillars by hand and ot the 

 moths by hand-nets. The moths fly by day. 



Remarks, (i) Apparently onlj once reported as doing damage 



in Southern India. The outbreaks in the case of the allied //. cingala 



Ion are usually sporadic and severe in circumscribed areas 

 hut parasites soon increase in numbers and hold the moth in check. 

 (2) I am indebted to Dr. Coleman tor the loan of the specimen 

 from which the figure has been drawn. 



EUCOSM1D/E. 

 AKi.YROPLOCE ILLEPIDA, Butl. 

 Teras illepida, Butler, T.E.S. 1882.. 42. 



Cryptophlebiacarpophaga, Wlsm, I.M.X.. IV. 106. t. 7. I. 1. ; Lefroy, 

 bid. Ins. Life. p. 53 1 . t. 28, \'\\ II 12. 



Cryptophlebia illepida, Walsm., Faun. Hawaii, I, 681. t. 10. (\. 23—25. 

 Argyroploce illepida, Meyr., Rec. Ind. Mus., V, 218. 



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. - '-a f ' 



<s#msm$ 



irgyroploce illepida. 1. Larva : -'. Empty pupa-i 



' [oth, natural size and ma 

 1 and -' from Indian Museum N - 



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