38 LIFE-HISTORIES OF TORTRICIDA 
CACGECIA MICACEANA, WLK. 
Cacecia micaceana, Wlk., XXVIII, 314 (1863)(!) ; Moore, Lep. Ceylon, III, 
492, t. 208 f. 1 (1887)|?). 
Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. The larva has been found 
on guava and broad bean at Mandalay (K. D. Shroff coll.). We have also 
moths from Minbu (Lower Burma) and from Peshawar. 
CACGECIA EPICYRTA, MEYR. 
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Raye nha Caceecia epicyria, Meyr., B. J., XVI, 589 (1905) (!), T. E. S., 1910, 482 (?). 
md -Rpac. es Originally described from Ceylon, this species has since been found in 
a y India and Java. In India it is widely distributed and we have it from Madul- 
sima, Maskeliya, the Shevaroys, the Palnis, Coimbatore, Pusa, Solan and 
Darjiling. 
At Coimbatore it has been bred from a larva on Duranta fruits, and 
at Pusa from a larva boring a guava fruit. 
Cacecia epicyrta has been bred in Southern India on several occasions 
by Y. Ramachandra Rao from larve found on Lantana camara. The larva 
webs up adjacent flower-heads and feeds on the corollas, etc., as a rule, but 
is sometimes found also on shoots or on ripe fruits, which latter it webs up 
and feeds on their dried pulp and bores into the seeds but in most cases without 
injuring the embryos. It has been found on Lantana camara at Coimbatore, 
Kallar, Bangalore, Sidapur, Manantoddy and Yercaud. 
A larva 8 mm. long is described as dark grey, slightly hairy, head shiny 
yellowish-brown, prothoracic shield shiny dark-brown. This larva was 
found on 2lst November 1916, and moulted on 24th-25th November, after 
which it was 12 mm. long, dark grey, rather hairy, the hairs arising from 
whitish wart-like shields, head shiny yellow-brown, prothoracic shield very 
dark brown anteriorly edged with light brown. On 29th November it was 
17°5 mm. long ; on 30th November it prepared a cocoon and pupated on Ist 
December, the moth emerging on 9th December 1916. 
The larva is occasionally greenish or brown, and the head may be reddish- 
brown. 
The pupa is about 10°5 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, reddish-brown dorsally, 
yellowish ventrally, with the wing-sheaths reaching the fourth abdominal 
segment. Third and succeeding abdominal segments with three transverse 
dorsal ridges, first sharp and medially indented posteriorly to form a sharp 
angle, second ridge composed of four to eight rather large short spines, third 
ridge forming a posterior row of small, close-set, stout spines. The anterior 
