16 LIFE-HISTORIES OF PTEROPHORIDE 
An egg, extruded by a captured female moth, was about 0°35 mm. long 
by 0°20 mm. broad, the ends rounded, uniform salmon-pink, the surface 
shining and covered with a series of large depressions. 
-DEUTEROCOPUS ALOPECODES, MEYR. 
Deuterocopus alopecodes, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 105-106 (1911)(?). 
Described from Karwar where the moths were found in August “from 
a single vine-plant on which the species was plentiful ’’('). The larva pre- 
sumably feeds on this vine, but this species is unknown to me. 
DEUTEROCOPUS SOCOTRANUS, REBEL. 
Deuterocopus socotranus, Rebel, Denk. Math-Nat. Ak. Wiss., LX XII, pt. ui, 
pp. 85-87, fig. (1907)(!) ; Fletcher, T. E. §., 1910, 124-180, ff. 3, 4, t- 
44 f. 8, t. 45 f. 1(2). 
Deuterocopus tengstremi (nec Zell.), Mevr., B. J., XVII, 134 (1906)(*). 
Deuterocopus viticola, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 104-105 (1911)(*). 
This species * is very widely distributed, its range extending from West 
Africa, 8.E. and East Africa, Sokotra, through India, Ceylon, Sumba, Tambora 
and Amboyna to New Guinea and Queensland. In India, Ceylon and Burma 
it is common in most districts and we have it from Hambantota, Coimbatore, 
Surat, Pusa, Moulmein and Minbu. At Pusa it has been reared from larve 
on Vitis trifolia. 
**The larva feeds in Ceylon on the flowers of the square-stemmed jungle 
vine (Vitis quadrangularis)...... The following is a brief description from 
a living larva found at Hambantota :—Length 7 mm., stout, stoutest at 
about mid-length, decreasing rapidly anally ; head capable of retraction into 
or under prothorax. Incisions between segments distinctly marked. Colour 
a uviform pale green; head yellowish-brown and prothorax dark blackish- 
purple. Prothoracic legs purple, other legs and prolegs pale green ; legs and 
prolegs rather short and stout. To the naked eye no hairs are visible except 
two pairs of short whitish curved hairs on the anal segment and a pair of short 
submedian hairs, directed forward, on each thoracic segment. Spiracles 
high-placed, about half-way up the side, fairly conspicuous from being out- 
lined in a slightly lighter green tint than that composing the general colour 
* Mr. Meyrick(*) considers that the form described by me as socotranus(?) consists of 
heterogeneous material. The true socotranus is possibly truly distinct, as indicated in my 
paper on this genus, but examination of over one hundred specimens ranging from West Africa 
to New Guinea failed to provide me with any satisfactory method of separating these into true 
species, and I adhere to my former expression of opinion on this point. An almost exactly 
similar case is provided by Buckleria defectalis, Wik. 
