72 : LIFE-HISTORIES OF GELECHIADAS 
does not bore up and down inside the stem but lives in the gall, several of 
which may be found on the same stem at quite short distances apart (Plate 
XVI, figure 2a). 
The larva is about 8 mm. long, cylindrical, slightly tapering towards 
either extremity, brownish-yellow, prothorax and anal segment tinged 
with pinkish; head black, shiny; prothoracic shield large, black, 
shiny; last two abdominal. segments with black plates ; five pairs of short 
prolegs. 
Pupation takes place inside the gall, through one end of which the larva 
gnaws a round hole for emergence of the moth, this hole being stopped with a 
thin layer of silk, which is burst by the moth. The larva may pass the summer 
in a resting condition inside the gall. From larvee collected on 15th February 
1915, one moth emerged on 23rd April and another moth on 22nd October 
whilst larvee were still living in the galls on 29th September 1915. Moths 
have also been reared out in May. The larve are extensively parasitized. 
(Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 1202.) 
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LDIOPHANTIS CHIRIDOTA, MEYR. 
Tdiophantis chiridota, Meyr., Exot. Mier., I, 201 (1914)(2). 
Reared at Peradeniya in May from galls produced by a Psyllid on 
Eugenia(}). . 
ISTRIANIS CRAUROPA, MEYR. 
Istrianis crauropa, Meyr., Exot. Micr., H, 130 (1918)(?). 
‘“ Bred at Dharwar, N. Kanara, in June from a larva feeding externally 
on lower surface of leaf of Butea frondosa (Leguminose) in May (Mazvwell) ; 
pupa in spindle-shaped cocoon on leaf(!).” 
EPHYSTERIS -CHERSAA, MEYR. 
Ephysteris chersea, Meyr., P. Z. 8., 1908, 725(3), Exot. Mier., II, 131 (1918)(?). 
Epithectis oschophora, Meyr., Rec. Ind. Mus., V, 219-220(3) ; Fletcher, Entl. 
Note 80 (1916)(4). 
First described from the Transvaal(!) and afterwards from Maskeliya, 
Diyatalawa, Calcutta and Purneah(3), this species has since been recorded 
from the Tenimber Islands, New Guinea(?). We have it from Purneah, 
Coimbatore and Abbottabad. 
The larva is stated to feed in dry vegetable refuse(?). The moth was 
reared at Coimbatore in 1914, from cholam stubble(¢). 
