44 LIFE-HISTORIES OF EUCCSMIDZ 
~~ ‘This species was reared at Pusa at the end of March 1916, from small 
larvee found on tender leaves of Eugenia jambolana on 10th March. One 
specimen of Polychrosis cellifera was also reared with these, but the larvee 
were not distinguished. (Dwarka Prasad Singh’s Cage-slip dated 10th 
March 1916.) | ; 
At Nagpur this species was said to have been reared from “ balsam ” 
and at Koilpatti it has been reared from a larva feeding on tender mango 
leaves. 
ACROCLITA CHERADOTA, MEYR. 
Acroclita cheradota, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 856(!). 
Strepsipleura. cheradota, Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 540 (1909)(2). 
Larva feeding in rolled leaves of Ficus religiosa at Pusa(}»2). Also 
recorded from Puttalam, in Ceylon('). We have specimens from Pusa and 
Coimbatore, in both cases bred from larvee on leaves of Ficus religiosa, but 
no description of the larva seers to have been wade. It has also been reared 
at Pusa from a larva found on Fieus glomerata in a gall caused by Pauropsylla 
depressa ; the larva was found on 25th December 1916, and emerged on 14th 
January 1917. . 
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; ACROCLITA NAVANA, HB. 
Tortrix nevana, Hubner, Tortric.; 261('). 
Eudemis nevana, Meyr., Handbk., p. 477 (1895)(?), 
Rhopobota nevana, Wism., A. M. N. H. (7), VI, 441 (1900)(3) ; Kennel, Spuler’s 
Schmett. Eur., TI, 273, t. 85 f. 43(¢). : 
Acroclita nevana, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 857 (1912)(5). 
Larva light grey-brown, sides more yellowish ; head black or blackish- 
brown ; plate of 2 black ; on blackthorn, holly, Vaccinium, ete.(?). 
Occurs throughout India and Ceylon; also in Europe and Japan. We 
have this from the Khasi Hills, where it is common, but it has not been 
reared in India. Exe Inc D343 (per. 199) 
ACROCLITA VIGESCENS, MEYR. M&/ (PLATE VIII,-FIG. 2.) 
This species has been reared at Pusa from pupe found cn 9th Ma ch 
1916, on leaves of Cordia myxa and frcm larve found on 15th April 1916, 
joining together leaves of Cordia latifolia. The larva was described as pale 
brownish slightly tinged with green; head brown with brown mouthparts. 
The pup were found on either side of the leaf ; in some cases the cocoon 
consisted of fine whitish silken threads only, in cthers blackish pellets of 
excrement were attached to the silk. On emergence of the moth the 
chestnut-brown pupa is prctruded out of the cocoon. The moths emerged in 
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