62 LIFE-HISTORIES OF EUCOSMID 
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LASPEYRESTA ae ANA, FB. oR 
Tyres Kotnige ana Jb. yr. EN, 65% WW) oe Se - iL a estar (Koens) J 
Pyralis kenigana, Fabr., eae Syst. IIT, 1,279 @ 794)(! ). 
Hemerosia aurantiana, Pryer, Cist. Ent. I, 235, t.4 £12 (?). 
Laspeyresia aurantiana, Meyr., Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., XXXVI, 292-293, 
(1911)@). 
Las peyresia keenigana, Fletcher, 8S. Ind. Ins., pp. 450-451, f. 328 (1914)(4). 
A very widely-distributed species in the Plains of India and Burma. 
The Pusa collection contains specimens from Coimbatore, Siruguppa (Bellary), 
Surat, Purulia, Chapra, Pusa, Minbu and Tatkon (Burma). 
At Surat it is said to have bred from larvee on mogra (Jasminum ‘sambac) 
and at Coimbatore it has been reared from larvee feeding on leaves of nim 
(Melia azadirachta). The larvee have also been found on nim at Serampur 
by Mrs. Drake. 
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LASPEYRESTA HEMIDOXA, MEYR. 
Laspeyresia hemidoxa, Meyr., B. J., XVIII, 145 (1907) ('). 
This lovely little moth was described from the Khasi Hills('). 
We have it from the Khasi Hills (about 1,500 feet) and Taliparamba 
(Malabar). At Taliparamba a single specimen was reared on 2nd August 
1909, from a larva boring in shoots of pepper vine. 
Coca bASPEFRESTA LEUCOSTOMA, MEYR. (PLATE XIV, FIG. 2.) 
Laspeyresia leucostoma, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 876 (1912)('), Exot. Micr., IT, 23 
(1916) (7); Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 20 (1917)(8). 
Described originally from Ceylon (Maskeliya), the Palni and Khasi 
Hills(1). | 
“Larva feeding in rolled leaves of Thea sinensis (Fletcher)’’(?). 
This species occurs also in the Nilgiris, having been reared at Coimbatore 
from, larvee found rolling tea-leaves on Waterfall Estate in May 1915, and in the 
Kanan Devan, Hills (Travancore) whence we received in April 1917, by kind 
courtesy of Mr. A. G. Murray, of Munaar Estate, specimens of larve from 
which a moth was reared at Pusa on 14th May 1917. I have also seen a 
specimen from Assam. 
This caterpillar is commonly called “Tea Flush Worm” in Scuthern 
India and its habits are apparently much the same as those of Homona coffearia. 
No detailed description was made but the accompanying figures show an 
attacked tea-shoot, larva, pupa and moth of this species. (Pusa Insectary 
Cage-slip 1556.) 
