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ARGYROPLOCE EROTIAS, MEYR. 
Platypeplus erotias, Meyr., B.J., XVI, 584-585 (1905)(*). 
Argyroploce erotias, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., XXXVI, 269 
(1911)(2) ; Fletcher, Entl. Note 75 (1916) (3), Proc. Second Kntl. Meeting, 
p. 219(4): Cian Reo Apc. Er. hom. W280 Jone 1920 ) 
This species was originally described from Ceylon(') and has since been 
recorded from New Guinea(?), Timor(?) and Indja(* 4). We have it from 
Pusa, Bombay, Kallar, and Kandy. At Bombay the larva was found boring 
into mango shoots. 
Argyroploce erotias “has been reared at Pusa from larvee found feeding 
on tender mango leaves’ in March 1912. The larva is about 16 mm. long by 
2 mm. broad, slightly flattened, tapering towards the extremities, in colour 
uniform green, the skin soft and segments distinct ; head flattened, greyish 
yellow, smaller than prothorax which is entirely covered by a shield darker 
than the head; all legs present and equally developed. The larva rolls up 
the tender leaves of young mango shoots by means of white silk threads, 
living in hiding and biting holes in the rolled leaves. When full-fed, it 
pupates in a cocoon formed of rolled leaf lmed with white silk ; the pupa 
is protruded to some extent before emergence of the moth. We also have 
specimens reared in October 1905, from larve boring mango shoots im 
Bombay ().” 
This species has also been reared at Pusa in February 1915, from larvee 
webbing tender leaves of Loranthus sp. and in December 1915, from leaves of 
Cynoglossum sp. 
Argyroploce erotias has also been reared by Y. Ramachandra Rao at 
Kallar from a pupa found in a folded leaf of Lantana camara. 
This pupa was described as follows :—8'5 mm. long and 2°5 mm. broad, 
yellowish or reddish brown, rather shiny, rather slender, cylindrical, anteriorly 
blunted ; frontal part of head with a prominent raised flat ridge bounded on 
each side by depressions from which the antenn arise ; anal segment conical 
terminating in a slightly flattened heavily chitinized red-brown apex bearing 
six or eight strong recurved hooks ; abdominal segments anteriorly with a 
submarginal sharply excised ridge, following close upon which is a row of 
strongly developed posteriorly-directed spines (with a few smaller spines inter- 
spersed in some cases), and posteriorly with an ante-marginal transverse 
~ row of smaller but well-developed and more numerous spines ; second segment 
of abdomen on, each side with a subdorsal prominently-marked shallow pit 
guarded by strongly-developed chitinous red-brown lips ; wing-sheaths extend- 
ing to middle of fourth abdominal segment. 
