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also been reared in Southern India by Y. Ramachandra Rao irom larve 
found feeding on Lantana at Kallar (Nilgiris) and Sidapur (Coorg). 
HOMONA MENCIANA, WLK. 
Pandemis menciana, Wlk., Cat., XXVIII, 310 (1863) ('). 
Godana simulana, sey Cat. XXXV, 1801 (1866) (?). 
Z svoor_Ent., XLLV,-68-69;+--5-f, 3,34-(190b-4)4d5 (arc leanne f 
Capua, menciana, Wan, 2 A. uM. _N. H. (7) QV, 482-483 (1900) (4). Fsfec 
Demand peice, Mens TE sh 1910, 432 (5): Thratec Poot TL Gott, Mert s i b3)- ei sin a 
a JE damn 
Originally described from Shanghai, H. menciana has since been recorded Pel 
Srid the: Soeestre ie ty 
po. hoe ork en. 2 
28L qo 

from Japan, China, India, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Timur, Batian, 
Moluccas. In India it has been found at Cherrapunji(+), in the Naga Hills(*) 
and in Sikkim(‘), and we have it from Shillong and Darjiling and also from 
Southern India. 
Homona menciana has been bred in Southern India by Y. Ramachandra 
Rao from larve folding tips. of branches of Lantana camara at Kallar 
and webbing flowers and leaves on tip of a Lantana branch at Sidapur, 
Coorg. 
The Kallar larva, when about to pupate, was described as 12 mm. long, 
cylindrical, rather stout, pale greenish to pale yellowish, posterior extremity 
rather dark green ; head shiny black ; prothoracic shield rather lighter than 
head with a conspicuous narrow pale anterior margin ; shields on body rather 
large, circular, shiny, bearing rather long, slender hairs; legs and prolegs 
normal. It pupated on 3rd January and a female moth emerged on 10th 
January 1917. 
The Sidapur larva was described as 19 mm. long, cylindrical, slightly 
flattened, brownish-green, with sparse greyish-green hairs ; head small, flat- 
tened, reddish yellow, prothoracic shield greenish brown with a dark brown 
marginal line laterally and posteriorly but not anteriorly. It pupated on 
18th May and the moth emerged on 25th May 1917. 
Pupa (from Kallar larva) 12 mm. long and 3°5 mm. broad, reddish or 
yellowish brown, cylindrical, rather stout, blunted anteriorly, wing-sheaths 
barely reaching middle of dorsal surface of fowith abdominal segment, anal 
segment produced into a long blunt chitinized projection. Abdominal seg- 
ments with three transverse dorsal ridges, first plain and sharply excised 
posteriorly, second composed of a row of strongly developed spines, third 
composed of a row of numerous smaller spines (which, however, are not s0 
small or so numerous as in Lobesia). (Y. Ramachandra Rao’s Lantana Cage- 
slip 33 and un-numbered slip dated 13th May 1917.) 
