84 LIFE-HISTORIES OF GELECHIADA 
This species has heen reared at Pusa from larve found on 25th January 
1906 under gular (Ficus glomerata) bark, and from larve found on 27th January 
1917 amongst dry fallen leaves. The larva feeds on dry leaves. It is about 
15 mm. long, cylindrical, greyish, clothed with black hairs so densely that the 
segments are not distinguishable and the larva looks like a mass of hairs ; 
many hairs are longer and rise above the dense mass, these longer hairs being 
greyish ; head black, shiny ; five pairs of equally developed greyish prolegs ; 
legs black. Pupation takes place, within the cavity formed by dead dry leaves 
which have rolled up to some extent, in a blackish cocoon in which all the 
hairs from the body of the larva have been knitted. The moths emerge 
in March after a pupal period of four or five weeks. (Pusa Insectary Cage- 
slips 290, 1529.) 
THYRSOSTOMA GLAUCITIS, MEYR. 
Thyrsostoma glaucitis, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 736 (1907)(1), Exot. Micr., I], 120 
(1918)(?). 
Described from Peradeniya where it was reared “ from mango leaf ’’(}). 
Besides Ceylon, received from Coorg, Kanara and Assam; attached 
to mango, apparently common(?). 
DACTYLETHRA CANDIDA, STT. 
b gi ferolla © tnarsia candida, Stainton, T. E. 8. (n. s.) V, 114-115 (1859)(4). 
KIN Sao-S! Dactylethra candida, Meyr., B. J., XXII, 167 (1913)(). 
th (3) [Gyler J Originally described from Calcutta(!). Doubtless widely distributed 
in the Plains. We have it from Adoni, in the Bellary District, where it was 
reared from a larva making galls in stems of Tephrosia purpurea in August 
1912, from Koilpatti where the larva was found causing galls on tender shoots 
of a wild indigo in August 1907, and from Manganallur, where it was bred in 
September 1917 from wild indigo. 
a 
i ae. LECITHOCERA CRYPSILYCHNA, MEYR. 
a . ee 
pan “eh Brachmia crypsilychna, Meyr., B. J., XXII, 773-774 (1914)(2). 
Lecithocera crypsilycha, Meyr., Exot. Micr., II, 103 (1918)(?). 
Described from Bassein Fort, Bombay. The larva was found between 
spun leaves of Ipomea arvensis(}). 
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tw feck ’ si LECITHOCERA EFFERA, MEYR. 
rea olen YA qp1-104, Lecithocera effera, Meyr:, Exot. Micr., II, 104 (1918)(}). 
he i 3 ; 
Se eee Bred at Coimbatore from larva feeding on leaves of sweet-potato (Jpomea 
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| batatds) in September. Pupa-case clothed with scattered erect hairs, a curious 
rcchancn effort in Bre Cat raoeg T Sa (Ne. 2) 
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