6 LIFE-HISTORIES OF PTEROPHORIDA 
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BUCKLERIA XERODES, MEYR. 
Trichoptilus xerodes, Meyr., T. E. 8., 1886, 14 (4), Uc. 1885, 422 (2), Lc. 1887, 
267 (3), B. J., XVII, 134 (1906) (4); Fletcher, Spolia Zeylan., VI, 30, 
t. Af. 9, t. Ff. 45(1909)-(5) ; Meyr., Gen. Ins. Pteroph., p. 5, tab. £2 
(1910) (°). 
This species is widely distributed throughout Australia (—%) and has 
also been recorded from New Guinea(’)/and Ceylon(*). We have it from 
Nagpur, where it was reared by Ratiram Khamparia on 22nd November, 
1912, from a larva found on pods of Cajanus indicus, from Khurda, Pollibetta 
(Coorg), and from Trincomali and Haldummulla in Ceylon. 
A larva found at Peradeniya on 26th December, 1907, on Gynandropsis 
sp. (Capparidee) was described as “ about 12 mm. long, cylindrical, mode- 
rately stout, Head yellowish with an orange tinge. Colour of other segments 
a uniform pale yellow. A large brown latero-dorsal wait emits a long white 
hair and about five short ones. Belew this is a small black supraspiracular 
tubercle emitting a single short white hair and bearing a short secondary 
hair. Spiracle small, black. A small black subspiracular tubercle emits 
(1) a short white hair directed forwards and downwards, (2) a longer white hair 
directed backwards and downwards. Below this and a little behind it is a 
small black wart emitting a single hair. Towards the ventral surface are 
two (2 three) small black warts emitting white hairs. There are numerous 
small knobbed white secondary hairs. All warts are well raised above the 
surface of the skin, and the divisions of the segments are well marked. (Plate 
F, figure 4)."(°) This larva was not reared and at the time was only supposed 
to be B. xerodes but later on Mr. Green informed me that he had bred this 
species from similar larvee on this foodplant. 
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BUCKLERTA DEFECTALIS, WLK. (PLATE I, FIG. 1.) 
Pterophorus defectalis, Wik., Cat. XXX, 943 (1864)(1 Matin eS an. 
Pterophorus congrualis, Wlk., Cat. XXX, 943 ( coe ). 
Pterophorus oxydactylus, Wik., Cat. XXX, 944 (1864)(°). 
Trichoptilus ochrodactylus, Fish, Canad. Ent. XIII, 142 (1881)(*) ; 
Fernald, Pteroph. N. Amer., 2nd edit., p. 15 (1898)(°). 
Trichoptilus compsochares, Meyr., T. E. 8., 1886, 16 (1886)(°). 
Trichoptilus centetes, Meyr., T. E. 8., 1886, 16-17 (1886)(‘), ad., Le. 1887, 
266 (1887)(8) ; Wlsm., P. Z. 8., 1891, 494(), éd., Le. (1897), 5 6('°), 
Trichoptilus ralumensis, Pag., Zoologica, XXIX, 239(1'). 
Aciptilia oxydactyla, Wlsm. P. Z. 8., 1885, 885('*), Moore, Lep. Ceylon, IIT, 
529, t. 209, £. 16('). 
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