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STEGASTA VARIANA, MEYR. \“** whee p 202 ) 
Stegasta variana, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W., see 314 (1904)(4), B. J., 
XVII, 140 (1906)(?), Ann. Transvaal Mus., IT, 12 (1909)(8), J. c., ILI, 65 
(1911)(4), Entom. Mitteil. Suppl., III, p. 50 (1 nae Reenden 
Originally described from Eastern Australia(!) and afterwards, fio 
Ceylon (2), South Africa(*» 4) and Formosa (°), this species is widely distributed 
in India and Ceylon, and we have it from Peradeniya, Coimbatore, Bassein 
Fort (Bombay), Hoshangabad, Katni (Central Provinces), Palamau, Cuttack» 
Pusa and Shillong. It has been reared at Pusa from larvee found webbing, 
and sometimes rolling, leaves of chakwar (Cassia tora) and chameli (Jasminum 
sp.). The larva usually binds together two leaves, one above another, and 
lives in the shelter so formed, feeding on the epidermis and mesophyll substance, 
and leaving a thin layer of one epidermis. 
The full-grown larva is 8 to 9 mm. long, cylindrical, slightly tapering 
posteriorly, segments distinct, green (becoming pink before pupation) ; head 
flattened, black, shiny, smaller than prothorax ; prothorax smaller than 
mesothorax, wholly covered above by a black, shiny shield, ventrally black 
with a pinkish tinge ; mesothorax black with a pinkish tinge or (in other 
specimens) reddish-brown ; legs black ; tubercles small, black, emitting short 
grey hairs ; five pairs of equally developed prolegs. 
Pupation takes place in a sort of cocoon formed by lining the larval shelter 
with a thin layer of silk. The pupa is about 4 to 4°5 mm. long, brown, anal 
segment with thin cremastral hooks which hold the pupa-case within the cocoon 
on emergence of the moth. The pupal period is five or six days in October. 
(Pusa Insectary Cage-slips 608, 803.) 
ONEBALA BLANDIELLA, WLK. 
Onebala blandiella, Wlk., X XIX, 792 (1) ; Wlsm., in Swinh., Cat. Lep. Het. 
Oxf. Mus., II, 545 (1900) (2) . Meye~T-E_S. 1894 464%), (LamfpesF rms) 
“Larva greenish, naked, riot an inch long. Leaf-roller on a common 
species of dead-nettle at Ootacamund. Imago emerges in February(?).”’ 
Also recorded from Ceylon(!) and-Burma-Mone}). 
AYGROPLAS TA -PACHMS EIS SPOLIATELLA, WLK. 
Crekech'a remorees aaiay eae: 
Cr yptolechia Pe ee Ges we ace pas 519, t. 209, ee | 
(1887)(2). 
Pachnistis diluticornis, Meyr., B. J.. XX, 707 (1911)(?). 
We have this from Surat (where it was reared from a larva on dry cotton- 
stalks), Chapra, and Pusa. 
