20 LIFE-HISTORIES OF PTEROPHORIDA 
distribution in other regions appears to be natural. It is abundant in India, 
Ceylon and Burma in every district which has been invaded by Lantana, 
and we have specimens from Trincomali, Kandy, Haldummulla, Madulsima, 
Peradeniya, Ootacamund, Sidapur, Pollibetta, Coimbatore, Bababudin Hills, 
Pusa, Shillong and Maymyo, and also from Honolulu. 
“The egg is about 0°4 mm. long by about 0°22 mm. broad, and is of a 
very pale greenish-yellow colour (almost colourless); one end seems larger 
than the other and this larger end is studded with little prominences, especially 
noticeable in the micropylar area ’’(°). 
The egg is 0°33 mm. long and 0°17 broad, pale yellow, opalescent, in 
outline ellipsoid, somewhat flattened, translucent, the surface covered with 
an irregular network of ridges. It is laid among the spines on the sepals of 
the florets of Lantana camara, sometimes on the leaves or on the petals. (Y. 
Ramachandra Rao’s Lantana Cage-slip 1.) 
Eggs laid at Coimbatore on 8th-9th December hatched on 12th-13th 
December. 
The newly hatched larva is less than 1 mm. long, pale, translucent, head 
shiny black, prothoracic shield pale brown. 
“The larva is stout, pale yellow and naked—at least, no hairs are visible 
to the unaided eye. The larva is usually found coiled round at the base of 
the flower-tubes in the interior of a Lantana flower ’’(°). 
The larva is about 6 mm. long and about 1 mm. broad, cylindrical, uni- 
form chrome-yellow ; head light brown ; five pairs of small thin prolegs. 
The larva is found boring the thickened rachis [of Lantana camara] in 
which its tunnel may be found ; it also bores into the sessile fruits from inside 
the tunnel only to eat the substance of the seed. It never comes out cf its 
tunnel. Before pupating it forms a sort of cocoon by lining the tunnel with 
white silk and covering the mouth of the tunnel by a silken arch on which 
black pellets of excrement may remain attached. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 
815). 
Besides Lantana camara, the larva feeds in the flowers of Lantana indica 
and Lippia geminata. 
“The pale yellow pupa is to be found in a sort of chamber gnawed into 
the side of the fruit receptacle, a regular cocoon being formed of bits of vege- 
table matter spun together with silk. The emerged pupe are usually found 
projecting half-way out of the cocoon amongst the ripening fruit, such bunches 
of fruit being far less productive than unattacked ones ’’(°). 
The pupa is about 5 mm. long, cylindrical, tapering to a point posteriorly, 
uniform chrome-yellow ; legs-cases free ventrally and produced nearly to 
