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54 LIFE-HISTORIES OF EUCOSMIDAi 
LOBESIA “HOLOPA, MEYR, (Seo? )0 51 44 
Lobesia wolopa, Meyr., B. J., XVI, 976 (1907)(2), P. Z. S., 1908, 716(2), Exot. 
Micr., I, 565 (1916)(3). vit 
Originally described from Maskeliya and Peradeniya, in Ceylon, and 
from Bombay('), this species has also been recorded from Cape Colony(2) 
and Reunion(?). It seems to be widely distributed in India and Burma, 
the Pusa collection containing examples from Pusa, Coimbatore, Pollibetta, 
Mercara, Bangalore, Shillong and Moulmein. 
In Ceylon it was bred by Rutherford from Cajanus indicus(3). 
Lobesia colopa has been bred at Coimbatore and Mettupalayam by Y. 
Ramachandra Rao from larvee webbing flowers and leaves and feeding on 
fruits of Lantana camara. The pupal period in December and January is 
from seven to ten days. 
The full-grown larva is described by Ramachandra Rao as about 8 mm: 
long, dark brown or clay brown with a t’nge cf green in some segments ; head 
shiny dark brcwn tinged with yellow; prothoracic shield less shiny than 
head over whose posterior part it fits like a hood, semi-circular, broader than 
head, somewhat roughened ; body segments twice breadth of head, each 
segment with several (usually about three pairs dorsally, four pairs laterally 
and a few ventrally) prominent yellowish-white shields which carry short 
sete ; legs normal, blackish brown ; prolegs normal. 
It has also been reared at Pusa from larvee found in the flowers of Leucas 
cephalotes on 14th December 1915, the moths emerging between 8th January 
and 24th February 1916. 
} LOBESIA GENIALIS, MEYR. 
Lobesia genialis, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 869 (1912)(!). 
This species was originally described from Peradeniya(') but seems to be 
widely distributed in Southern India, and we have it from Coimbatore, the 
Anamalai Hills, Bangalore and Sidapur (Coorg). 
This species has also heen bred at Coimbatore by Y. Ramachandra Rao 
from larve webbing flowers of Lantana camara. The larva is distinguishable 
from that of LZ. wolopa by its greenish colour. The eggs, laid cn 28rd-24th 
December 1916, hatched on 27th December, a larva pupated on 10th January, 
and a moth emerged on 19th January 1917, so that the whole life-cycle occu- 
pies about four weeks. The stages are described by Ramachandra Rao as 
follows :— 
The egg is about 0°5 mm. in diameter, opalescent yellowish, very much 
flattened and very irregular in outline ; when laid it is probably semi-fluid 
and adapts itself to the surface on which it is laid. Under a low magnification 
