30 LIFE-HISTORIES OF PTEROPHORID 
PSELNOPHORUS ALBITARSELLUS, WLSM. 
Alucita albitarsella, Wlsm., in Swinh., Cat. Lep. Het. Oxford Mus., II, 542 
(1900). 
This species was described from a single specimen from Ootacamund. 
I have examined this (type) sp2cimen in the Oxford Museum and make it to 
be a Pselnophorus and not an Alucita. We have a specimen from the Palni 
Hills. 
“Larva white, about half an inch long, with a few long hairs scattered 
about its body. It burrows into the shoots of a common jungle plant. Pupa 
suspended by tail from underside of a leaf (Minchin) ”’. 
ALUCITA NIVEODACTYLA, PAG. 
Alucita niveodactyla, Pag., Zoologica, XXIX, 240 (1900) (') ; Meyr., T. E. S., 
1907, 490 (1908)(7) ; Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan , VI, 36, t. F f. 9 (1909)(3) ; 
Poulton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1909, p. 39(+*). 
Aciptilia nivea, Snell., Tijds. voor Ent., XLVI, 56, t. 5 £. 17(°). 
This species is widely distributed and is recorded from the Bismarck 
Archipelago('), Java(®), Cochin China(*), the Philippines(?) and Ceylon(*). 
In India and Ceylon it is apparently confined to the Hill districts. We have 
it from Shillong and Cherrapunji. 
“The larva feeds on the young leaves of an Ipomea, eating the leaves 
from the outside and not entering within the unexpanded leaf in the manner 
of Steganodactyla concursa. In colour it is of a uniform pale yellowish-green 
thickly studded with long fasciculated tufts of whitish hairs, of which those 
of the dorsal row are the longest and sometimes tipped with brown. These 
hair-tufts are extremely complicated, and their appearance will be best under- 
stood from the rough sketch of a larval segment (Plate F, fig. 9); under 
the microscope these tufts of long hairs recall the armature of spines exhibited 
by an Kchinid ’’(°). 
“The pupa is green, thickly covered with pale green spinous hairs and 
with an interrupted dorsal and sub-dorsal row of black spots. The moth 
emerges after about a week ”’(*), 
STEGANODACTYLA CONCURSA, WLSM. 
Steganodactyla concursa, Wlsm., Ent. Mo. Mag. 1891, 241(!), Novit. Lepidopt. 
t. 12 f. 37) ; Fletcher, Spol. Zeyl., VI, 9, t. E ff. 1-2 (1909)(°). 
This species is widely distributed in Ceylon and has been found in India 
at Belgaum and in Coorg. It has also been recorded from Sumatra by Hering 
(Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1903, 96). 
