18 LIFE-HISTORIES OF PTEROPHORIDA 
to skin-points or rather rugosites of the skin.” A sketch showing the arrange- 
ment of the tubercles is given in Spolia Zeylanica, VI, t. KH. f. 7. 
The pupa is “ brown with a broad lighter ochreous-uscous central band ; 
very few hairs or projections. It was suspended anally to a flower-stalk 
within a slight attem);t at a cocoon—a few silken threads spun around it to 
form a spacious but flimsy enclosure, in which the pupa was fully visible. 
The cast larval skin remained at the anal extremity of the pupa ”’(°). 
DEUTEROCOPUS RITSEMA, WLSM. E 
Deuterocopus ritsene, W\sm., Notes Leyden Mus., VI, 243 (1884)(') ; Fletcher, * 
T. E. S., 1910, 134-138, f. 6, t. 44 ff. 11, 12 (1910)(2). 
Deuteroscopus rubrodactylus, Pag., Abh. Ges. Zool., XXIX, 241(°). 
This species occurs in Ceylon, Assam, Tenasserim, and from Borneo 
to New Guinea(?). We have specimens from Kandy and Pollibetta. 
The early stages are as yet practically unknown. The moth has been 
bred by me in June 1908 at Galle from pupze,“ found suspended anally from 
the upper surface of leaves of Leea sambucina, which is evidently the food- 
plant. The different method of suspension, as compared with the pupa of 
D. planeta, is noteworthy. On the same bush I found a larva feeding inside 
an unopened flower-bud ; it appeared to be very similar to that of planeta 
but wanted the terminal red suffugion ; unfortunately I failed to rear it ”(2). 
PLATYPTILIA CITROPLEURA, ft tb, £59 bps) 
Piatyptilia citropleura, Meyr., T. KB. 8., 1907, 482 (1908)(!) ; Fletcher, Spol. 
Zeylan., VI, 15 (1909)(?) ; Meyrick, Entom. Mitteil., Suppl. No. TIT, p. 46 
(Jan. 1914)(). 
This species has been recorded from Maskeliya (Ceylon)('), the Khasis(!) 
and Formosa(*). I found it not uncommonly in the larval stage at Maskeliya 
in March 1909 but have never seen any specimens in the Khasi Hills. 
The larva feeds inside the seed-capsules of Begonia sp., both cultivated 
and wild varieties. A full-grown larva found at Maskeliya on 7th March 
1909 was described as 6 mm. long, stoutly built, thickest about mesothorax 
and gradually tapering posteriorly ; head pale yellow without any markings 
except the black ocelli and ferruginous jaws ; other segments creamy-yellow 
with a narrow pale ferruginous median line ill-defined anteriorly ; a broader 
pale ferruginous lateral line passes just above the spiracles, which are high- 
placed ; each segment divided trarisversely by a vertical constriction of the 
skin-surface into two sub-segments of which the anterior is one-and-a-half 
to twice as large as the posterior ; legs and prolegs transparent pale yellow, 
