*. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 19 
hooks of latter black; the whole surface of the body thickly covered with 
' minute black spiracles and more sparsely with short white secondary hairs ; 
primary hairs rather short white, warts inconspicuous. 
Another larva was of a pale greenish-yellow, the ferruginous markings 
barely represented by a slight darkening of the sround-colour. 
The pupa is attached to the outside of a seed-capsule of the foodplant. 
It is about 7 mm. long, moderately stout, dull pale yellow, with an indistinct 
dorsal ferruginous stripe and a broad ferruginous lateral stripe reaching to the 
spiracles ; the sixth segment with a large flattened latero-dorsal tr:cuspidate 
halberd-shaped projection ; seventh to eleventh segments with smaller pro- 
jections directed anteriorly ; cremaster double. 
A larva which suspended itself on 8th March pupated that night and 
emerged on 17th March. SYT WOE EL , Suet . Ca | 
PLATYPTILIA TAPROBANES-PELD, (PLATE III, FIG. 1.) te 9: q f-t~) 
Platyptilia taprobanes, |Felder, Reise’ Novara’, t- 0-4. 54(4); Moore; hep. 
Ceylon, TT,—527F) ; Meyrick, T. HE. 8., 1907, 482 (1908)(°) ; Fletcher, 
Spol. Zeylan., VI, 14 (1909)(*). 
Platyptilia sythoffi, Snell., Tijd. v, Ent., XLVI, 54, t. 5 fields toe): 
This species is known from Ceylon (Hills)(#), Palnis(*), Khasis() and 
West Java(®). We have specimens from Madulsina, the Shevaroys, Coim- 
batore, Pusa and Shillong. 
At Shillong the larva feeds commonly on Scutellaria discolor. ‘The figure 
is taken from a spirit specimen. 
. PLATYPTILIA PUSILLIDACTYLA, WLK. (PLATE IV.) fib cS) a ) 
Oxyptilus pusillidactylus, Wlk., Cat. XXX, 933 (1864)(!) tae VES Igatieeeee aoe 
Platyptilia pusillidactyla, Wlsm., Pp, Z.S., 1891, 495(7), id.5.ke., 1897, 57(3) ; 
Meyr., T. E. 8., 1907, 483 (1908)(4) ; Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan., VI, ls; 
t. Af. 2, t. Eff. 5, 6 (1909)(), T. L. S. (2) XII, 513 (1909)(°), Le, 399-400 
(1910)(*), 8. Ind. Ins., p. 444, £. 321 (1914)(7A), Entl. Note 73 (1916)(), 
Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 39 (1917) (2) Rena chandom Rao, b>: Bec EAP: Item. ee = 
Platyptilia teenidion, Zell., Hor. 5. 1. Ross, XIII, 468-469, (t. 6 f. 162 (1877)(!"). ee a 
Platyptilia hemimetra, Meyr., T. EH. 8., 1886, 18(1), B. J.,° XVII, 135 os 
(1906)(!2). | 
Platyptilia lantana, Busck, Insec. Inscit. Menstr. II, 103-104 (1914)(}). 
} Originally described from Jamaica(') this species is very widely distri- 
buted and has been recorded from the West Indies(?: *), Mexico(*), Reunion(!*), 
India(7), Ceylon(?), Hongkong(’) and Hawaii(” 18). It was introduced 
‘into Hawaii from Mexico to aid in reduction of Lantana infestation, but its 
