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SOME miCTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



Anacampsis nerteria. Meyr., B.J.. XVII. 130 11906) ; Lefroy. Ent. 

 Mem. Agri. Dept-. Ind., I, 226 ; Ind. Ins. Life. p. 534. 



Distribution. Throughout the Plains of Southern India. 



Lifehistory. — The egg is laid on leaves oi shoots of groundnut, 

 the caterpillar on emerging mining into the leaves, the mine show- 

 ing as a yellowish or brownish blotch on the leaf. After about a 

 week, the caterpillar emerges from the mine and webs together 

 small leaflets, still continuing to feed on the green leaf-tissues. 

 When full-fed it is about 6 mm. long, moderately stout, smooth, 

 with a few scattered short bristly hairs arising from minute blackish 

 chitinous warts, in colour pale greenish, head and prothoracic 

 shield blackish. Pupa yellowish or reddish-brown, in the chamber 

 formed of spun leaflets. Life-cycle, egg three days, caterpillar 

 12-14 'iays. pupa four days. 



Foodplants. — Ground-nut. Red Gram (Cajanus indicus), Psoralea 

 corylifolia. 



Status. A serious pest of ground-nut. 



Control. — Light-traps have some considerable attraction for the 

 moths, but no really effective method has vet been worked out. 



COSMOPTERYGID/E. 



PYRODERCES CORIACELLA, Snell. 



f •-.- - 



coriacelhi, 



moth .iiul profile view "I head. 



small outline figure shows the 



natural size. (Original.! 



Batrachedra coriacella. 

 Snellen. Tijd. v. Ent.. XLIV. 

 95, t. 6, f. 17 (1901). 



matophora gossy- 



piella. Wlsm., A.M.N.H. [7) 

 Will. [78 179 (1906); Mor. 

 statt, Pflanzer, Ylll. 253 (1912). 



Pyroderces s i m /> / r x . 

 Wlsm.; Durrant, Bull. Ent. 

 Re-.. 111. 206 207. f. 2 1 1912) 

 [part.]. 



Stagmatophora coriacella, 

 Meyr. T.E.S. (19IO), 372. 



D i s t r i b 11 1 i 11. — South 

 Arcot. Probably throughout 

 the Plains of Southern 

 India. 



