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in South Africa(5), the Seychelles("), Australia(’ °), and Hawaii (}) * 5). We 
have it from Undugoda, Coimbatore, Surat, Pusa and Chapra. 
Larva recorded in frujts of Cassia, Feronia, and Nephelium(*). 
Lefroy(®) has given good figures of the larva and notes that it is found 
commonly in Gujarat, boring in the pulp of fruits of wood-apple (Feronia 
elephantum) and when full-fed preparing in the fruit a silken excrement-covered 
cocoon, from which the moth emerges after a week. 
A. illepida was originally described from India by Lord Walsingham() 
under the name of Cryptophlebia carpophaga, from examples reared in Calcutta 
from pods of Cassia fistula and C. occidentalis, the male and female moths, 
larva and pupa-case being figured. 
These figures of the larva and pupa-case were repreduced in South Indian 
Insects(8), where a new figure of the moth was also given and tamarind (Zama- 
rindus indica) added to the list of foodplants. 
Litchi fruits, when available, seem to be a very favourite food of the 
larva and it has been found in these fruits at Pusa im 1907, 1911, and 
1914 and probably occurs every year, although im some years it is far 
more abundant than in others. Thus, I. H. Burkill notes that nm May 
1901, ninety-nine per cent. of the litchi fruits in the Calcutta market were 
tenanted by these larvee which eat the funicle or stalk of the seed and 
bore into the seed itself; the funicle, beg the way by which food passes 
to the seed, is probably highly nutritious as long as growth is actively 
going on and in it the larva tunnels until the fruit is perfectly ripe 
when the larva leaves it and emerges by biting through the wall at the 
base close to the stalk, and then spins its cocoon msome convenient 
crevice. ) 
Besides the foregoing foodplants, A. illepida has also been reared at Pusa 
from dhaincha (Sesbania aculeata) pods and from bael (Afgle marmelos) fruits ; 
at Coimbatore from pods of babul (Acacia arabica) and agathi (Sesbania 
grandiflora); and at Sabour in April 1917, from pulp of a purchased 
orange fruit. In the case of dhaincha a few pcds were found bored in 
November 1917, the larvee being found wholly withm the pod, feeding on 
the green seeds, the frass being extruded through a hole in the side 
of the pod; only a few larve were found and the damage done was 
negligible. In the case of bael several larvee were found on 29th November 
1913, eating the pulp of a fruit which showed little sign of attack 
from the outside except for a few small holes and a small crack in the 
hard shell of the fruit. In the case of tamarind the larve bore into the 
seeds. 
