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26 LIFE-HISTORIES OF PTEROPHORIDA 
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Exe atk Capt »¥- Marasmarcha hophanes, Meyr., TE. S., 1886, 19('). KK. 
EN as +s ae Exelastis liophanes, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 136(2); Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan., VI, 
| ae 4 fe is yn) 33-34, t. Af. 12 (1909)(3), T. L. S. (2) XII, 403 (1910)(4). 
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Leioptilus griseodactylus, Hofm., Zoologica, XXIX, 240 (1900)(°). 
Originally described from Reunion('), this species has been recorded: from’ 
Barbados, Natal, Seychelles, Ceylon, Formcsa, China (Fuchau) and the 
Bismarck Archipelago. It is abundant throughout the Plains of India, Burn a 
and Ceylon, and we have specjmens from Haldummulla, Peradeniya, Coim- 
batore, Virajpet (S. Coorg), Cuttack, Hoshangabad, Pusa, Palamau, Lun ding 
(Assam), Shillong, Lashio, Tatkon and Myitkyina. 
-This species was bred at Pusa in July 1910 from pupze found on the upper 
surfaces of leaflets of Oxalis sp. The larva has not been noted, but almost 
certainly feeds on Ozalis, probably on the flowers. 
EXELASTIS: PHLYCTANIAS, MEYR. 
Marasmarcha phlyctenias, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 106 (1911). 
Described from Trincomali and Puttalam and from Nerth Coorg. We 
have specimens from Colombo, Kegalle and Haldummulla. The early stages 
are unknown. 
EXELASTIS ATOMOSA, WLSM. (PLATE VIL.) 
Aciptilia atomosa, Wism., P. Z. S., 1885, 885('). 
Exélastis atomosa, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 730(?) ; Lefroy, Ent. Mem., I, 210, 
ff. 67, 687), Ind. Ins. Life, pp. 527-528, t. 53(4); Fletcher, 8. Ind. Ins., 
pp. 444-445, t. 38 (1914)(°), Proe. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 44, 56 (1917)(°). 
Exelastis parasita (Meyr., ined.), Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Pests, p. 140, figs. 
Pterophorus ebalensis, Rebel, Lep. Sokotra, p. 84 (1907) 
nec 
Exelastis atomosa, (nec Wlsm.), Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan., VI, 33, t. Af. 11 (1909) 
[ = phlyctenias, Meyr.]. 
Originally described from Bombay (3), this species is widely distributed 
in the Plains of India, but does not appear to occur in Ceylon, where it is 
replaced by E. phlycteenias, Meyr. It is an important pest of Cajanus indicus 
and Dolichos lablab. We have it from Peshawar, Abbottabad, Pusa, Samasti- 
pur, Bilaspur (C. P.), Hoshangabad, Bhopal, Baroda, Poona, Yemmiganur 
(Bellary) and Coimbatore. wie 
-Outside of India, . atomosu is known from Natal, Sekotra, and New 
Guinea. It will probably be found to be widely distributed throughout the 
tropical regions of the Old World, 
