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the surface of the eggshell appears to be reticulated, but under a higher power 
this reticulation is resolved into an exquisitely beautiful combination of many- 
rayed stellar ridges. In nature the egg is laid on leaves, leaf-buds, tops of 
flower-buds, or on fruits. 
The newly-hatched larva is about 1 mm. long, cylindrical, creamy yellow: 
covered with short hairs; head large, flattened, shiny black; prothoracic 
shield flattened, light brown. A week after hatching it is 6°5 mm. Icne, head 
with a lateral brown streak, prothoracic shield margined with black, brown 
posteriorly. 
The full-grown larva is about 9 mm. long, green, or yellowish-green, 
with prominent stiff setz ; head yellowish with a black lateral streak ; pro- 
thoracic shield vellowish bordered with black except anteriorly. / 
Pupation takes place within a silken cocoon formed within a folded edge 
of a leaf. Pupal period about eight days. 
Pupa 6 mm. long and 1:5 mm. broad across metathorax, rather slender, 
eradually tapering posteriorly, greenish brown, anal segment with five or 
six hairs with recurved tips. Posterior margin of each abdominal segment 
distinctly raised above anterior edge of its successor, each segment armed 
anteriorly and posteriorly with a submarginal transverse row of spines, com- 
posed anteriorly of rather large stout spines directed posteriorly, posterior 
row of much smaller, but far more numerous and more closely-set, denticles. 
ARGYROPLOCE CITHARISTIS, MEYR. 
Argyroploce citharistis, Meyr.,; B. J., XIX, 595 (1909)('), Rec. Ind. Mus., V 
219(2), 
This species is known from Moulrein(!), the Khasi Hills(?), North Coorg(') 
and Quilon (Travancore)(?). It is now recorded from Pusa where it was 
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reared from a larva feeding in flower-heads of Leucas sp. 
ARGYROPLOCE ILLEPIDA, BUTL. (PLATE XIII, FIG. 1.) 
Teras illepida, Butl., T.E.S., 1882, 42('). 
Cryptophlebia carpophaga, Wlsm., I.M.N., IV, 106, t. 7 £. 1 (1899)() ; Lefroy, 
Ind. Ins. Life, p. 531, t.28 ff. 11, 12 (1909)(). 
Cryptophlebia illepida, Wism., Fauna Hawaii, I. 681, t. 10 ff. 23-25(4). 
Argyroploce illepida, Meyr., Rec. Ind. Mus., V, 218 (°), Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
XXXVI, 265 (1911) (6), Tr. Linn. Soc.(2) XIV, 269 (1911)(7) ; Fletcher, 
South Ind. Ins., pp. 449-450, £. 327 (1914) (8), Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 
pp. 230, 234, 257. (1917)(9). 
Widely distributed throughout India and Ceylon, having been recorded 
from Calcutta(? *), Pusa(®), Gujarat(?) and Southern India(§). Also found 
Cait. wr 
Phevhorrd L° 
