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OU deem Wo Mirw, 
PTEROPHORUS LIENIGIANUS, ZELL. 
Pterophorus lenigianus, Zeller, Linn. Ent., VI, 380 (1852)(') ; South Entom., 
XV, 105, t. 2 f. 3(7); Meyr., Handb., p. 439(*), T. H. S., 1907, 497(1908) (4) ; 
Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan., VI, 34-35 (1909)(°), S. Ind. Ins., p. 445, f. 322 
(1914)(°), Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 288 (1917)(7). 
Levoptilus serindibanus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, III, 527, t. 209 f. 14(8). 
This speci iginally described from Central Europe('), occurs through- 
out India, (Burma, Jand Ceylon. We have specimens from Anura- 
dhapura, Coimbatore, Godavari District, Peshawar, Pusa, Shillong, and 
Maymyo. 
In Europe the larva has been recorded as feeding on the terminal leaves 
of Artemisia vulgaris and has been described as “pale bluish-green ; dorsal 
line broad, darker; sub-dorsal yellow-whitish; head brown, blackish- 
marked ” (°). 
In India the larva feeds on brinjal (Solanum melongena) and has been 
described as “about 8 to 10 mm. long, moderately stout, hairy, very pale 
yellowish, head brown’’(°). It has also been reared at Pusa from larvee found 
on 26th March 1917 rolling and feeding on leaves of an unidentified weed 
locally called khagra (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 1538). 
C (Aeen A? proms 
PFEROPHORUS MONODACTYLUS, LINN 
Alucita monodactyla, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. X) I, 542 (1758)('). 
Pterophorus pterodactylus, Buckler, Larve Brit. Butt. Moths, p. 365) 
(1901)(?). 
Titis species is very widely distributed throughout Europe and North 
America, and occurs in the North-West Frontier Province and in Kashmir. 
We have specimens from Parachinar (Kurram Valley). 
The larva feeds on various species of Convolvulus, Chenopodium and 
Atriplex and has been described by Porritt(2) as about 15 mm. in length and 
stout in proportion, head polished and rather small, body uniform and cylin- 
drical, tapering a little posteriorly, segmental divisions well defined and deeply 
cut ventrally, each tubercle emitting a tuft of short but rather strong hairs ; 
ground-colour bright yellowish-green, more decidedly green dorsally ; head 
pale yellow, mandibles light brown ; dorsal stripe narrow but distinct, yellowish 
white ; a much broader yellowish-white spiracular stripe, the space between 
this and spiracles freckled with streaks and spots of the same colour ; 
spiracles black, hairs greyish ; ventral surface, legs and prolegs uniformly pale 
green, 
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