42 LIFE-HISTORIES OF TORTRICIDE 
indistinct, whitish ; head yellow-green, in rolled leaves of Cardiospermum 
(Sapindacee).” 
The moth is recorded from India (Pusa), Ceylon (Puttalam), Mauritius, 
the Comoro Islands, and 8. Africa. We have it from Pusa only. 
The larva either rolls a single leaf of Cardiospermum sp. (Hindi Banchataal) 
or spins together two or three leaves, inside which it hides and feeds on the 
leaves. It is about 12 mm. long, cylindrical, slightly tapering posteriorly, 
with two lateral rows of whitish hairs and an indistinct whitish subdorsal 
line running from mesothorax to anal segment ; thoracic legs slender, pointed ; 
prolegs short, the anal pair directed posteriorly. When about to pupate, 
the subdorsal line becomes more distinct and changes in colour from white 
to bay ; it extends from first to eighth abdominal segments ; the dorsal area 
between these lines becomes a brighter bay colour; the eighth and ninth 
abdominal segments with two bay-coloured lateral dots. 
Pupation takes place within a rolled leaf. The pupa is 6 mm. long 
tapering posteriorly, reddish-brown, wings green. 
Larve were found at Pusa on 9th August,.1907. Pupation commenced 
on 13th August and the moths emerged between 20th and 24th August 1907. 
(A. Mujtaba’s Cage-slip 30.) 
PERONEA SIDEROTA, MEYR. 
Peronea siderota, Meyr., Exot. Micr., II, 171 (1918)('). 
“Bred at Peradeniya in December from larva mining in twigs of Cinna- 
momum camphora (Rutherford)(').” 
PERONEA EPIDESMA, LOW. (PLATE IX.) 
Polylopha epidesma, Lower, Tr. Roy. Soc. 8. Austr. (1901) 71('). 
Oxygrapha porpacias, Meyr., B. J., XVIII, 625 (1908)(2). 
Peronea epidesma, Meyr.,; P. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W., XXXV, 292-293 -(1910)(3). 
Recorded from Australia(!,*), Siam(?) and Ceylon.(?>%). We have a 
long series from Pusa. 
The larvee have been found at Pusa on 29th October 1911, and 15th Sep- 
tember 1917, rolling and binding together tender leaves of Polyalthia longifolia 
(Hindi Asokh). On the latter date they were found in very large numbers 
and were noted as doing considerable damage. 
The larva is about 15 mm. long, rather flattened, tapering slightly towards 
either extremity, brownish grey sometimes with a greenish or dark tinge. 
Head shining pale yellow speckled with black. Prothoracic shield as head 
with a black collar-like bar posteriorly. Hairs as shown in figure d, their 
