LEPIDOPTERA. 43 1 ) 



Li/ehistory.— Not known. Bred from ripe cotton-bolls, cater- 

 pillar probably feeding on the seeds. 

 Foodplants. Cotton. 

 Status. — Doubtful. Will probably pro\ e to be injurious to stored 



-red. 



Remarks. South Indian specimens have kindly been identified 



b Mr. Mevriek. It is possible that P. simplex, Wlsm. (T.E.S. (1891). 



1. 58) is a prior name as stated by Durrant (l.c.l but, as 



this synonymy i> doubtful. Snellen's name is retained for the 



present. 



CECOPHORID/E. 



1. INICA ZIZYPHI, Stn. 



Depressaria zisyphi, Stainton, T.E.S. (N.S.), V, 115 116 ( 1K50). 

 Depressaria augusta, Wlsm., Moore- Lep. Ceylon, III. 508, 

 t. 209, f. 5- 



Tonica zizyphi, Meyr., B.J., XX. [67 (1910). 



<§&s> 





uzyphi. The small outlii ws the natura 



( Original.) 



Distribution. Coimbatore; Palm Hills. Probably throughout 

 Southern India. 



Lifehistory. The caterpillar is about 8 mm. long, slender, yellow- 

 ish-green with a black head. It folds orange leaves longitudinally, 

 feeding on young leaves and the green matter of older ones. Pupa 

 Omm. long, reddish-brown, in a cocoon of transparent white silk 

 spun in the folded leaf; pupal period about four to five days. 

 . itrus of vai Lemon. 1 1 



Status. A very minor pest, occasionally injurious by eatii 

 the tender shoots of young plants. 



Control. Hand-picking of caterpillars in the folded lea\ 



