58 LIFE-HISTORIES OF EUCOSMIDAS 
At Coimbatore the larva has been found boring into rose buds and rolking 
mango leaves, at Kallar (Nilgiris) on Lantana camara, at Bassem Fort on mango 
and is said to have been reared at Nagpur on Dahlia flowers(7), whilst at Pusa 
it has been reared from larvee found rolling young leaves of mango (Mangifera 
indica), litchi (Nepheliwm litchi), rose, Cassia tora, and asokh (Polyalthia longi- 
jolia). Sometimes the larvee occur in considerable numbers and may do a 
little damage to the young leaves. 
The full-grown larva is about 16 to 20 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, cylin- 
drical, rather flattened, tapering slightly towards extremities, rather trans- 
parent uniform green or pale yellow; head flattened, red-brown, brownish or 
yellowish ; prothoracic shield large, darker than head ; spiracles small, re unded, 
rimmed with brown; body segments with small dull white hairs ; first two 
pairs of legs black, third pair green or yellow ; prolegs with very minute hook- 
lets. 
The larva rolls up tender leaves, feeding on them from under shelter. 
Pupation takes place inside a rolled leaf which is lined by a thin layer of white 
silk. Nearly the whole of the pupa is protruded from the cccoon on, emergence 
. of the moth, which occurs after a pupal period of about ten days. 
Pupa about 10 mm. long, cylindrical, tapering posteriorly, brown; dorsal 
portion of abdominal segments with two transverse rows of posteriorly-directed 
short spines ; anal segment with four cremastral hooks which are entangled 
in the silken lining of the cocoon. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slips 600, 809, 932» 
1302, 1448, 1691 and 1750.) 
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Larvee were found at Pusa ot 11th June 1 IT. in 1 eS of lashora (Cordia 
myza), the attacked fruits showing no external symptom of attack. The 
larvee seem to feed upon the kernel, gnawing a hole through the wall of the 
stone. Four larve were found in about one hundred fruits examined. The 
larva is about 10 mm. long, white ; head yellow or brownish yellow ; protho- 
racic shield brownish ; five pairs of short, equally developed prolegs. Pupa- 
tion occurred in, a silken cocoon spun on the bottom of the cage under a dry 
fruit. One moth emerged on 28th June. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 1595.) 
ARGYROPLOCE EBENINA, MEYR. 
Argyroploce ebenina, Meyr., Exot. Micr., H, 20 (October 1916)('). 
Bred at Karwar, N. Kanara, “in July from larve feeding gregariously 
between spun leaves of Diospyros (Ebenace) ; larva dark greenish-fuscous, 
with whitish hairs, head brown, plate of 2 black ; pupa beneath folded edge 
of leaf (Macwell)(').” 
