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86 LIFE-HISTORIES OF GELECHIADZE 
The larva is about 10 mm. long when extended and about 1 mm. broad, 
segments distinct, light yellow; head black, shiny ; prothorax with a shiny 
black shield divided medially by a narrow white line; mesothorax dark 
dorsally ; metathorax and first abdominal segment wholly blackish ; second 
and following abdominal segments with a broad black submedian stripe, from 
which on the anterior part of each segment arises a narrower black marking 
which runs obliquely downwards to the posterior part of the segment ; hairs 
short, black, scattered ; legs black, shiny ; five pairs of equally developed 
yellow prolegs. 
Pupation takes place in a cocoon formed by twisting a leaf around twice 
to form a tube which is lined with a thin layer of silk. The pupal period ~ 
is about five days. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slips 832, 1063.) . 
BRACHMIA TS OS MEYR.* 7 . 
Brachmia insulsa, Meyr., B. J., XX, 774 (1914) 1) tan Pact bat aie 
Mv 
This species was originally described from a and eae it from 
Peshawar, Abbottabad, Pusa and Belgaum. It appears to be common through- 
out the Plains of India. At Pusa the moths are abundant in May and June 
and occur in smaller numbers in February and March. 
It has been reared at Pusa from a larva found on Ist February 1910 on 
potato. The larva rolls a leaf or binds two leaves together with silk threads, 
living in the shelter so formed and nibbling small holes mm the leaf. When 
full-grown the larva is about 14 mm. long, cylindrical, pmk with a dark tinge ; 
head shiny, dark brown, posteriorly almost black ; prothoracic shield large, 
prominent, black, shiny ; thoracic segments dark ; segments with scattered 
hairs ; five pairs of equally developed prolegs. Pupation takes place m a 
cocoon formed by lining the larval shelter with white silk. The pupa is about 
6 mm. long, brown, the anal extremity prolonged into a flattened, pointed 
process bearing two long thin stiff divergent hairs. (Pusa Insectary Cage- 
slip 827.) 
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BRACHMIA XEROPHAGA, MEYR. (PLATE XX, FIG. 1.) 
Brachmia xerophaga, Meyr., Ent. Mo. Mag. 1914, 219-220(}). 
The larva, dark red in colour, occurs in nests of Stegodyphus sarasinorum; 
and doubtless feeds on the fragments of the numerous insects caught in the 
webs ; the pupa is also found in the nest, as is the moth itself. The latter may 
be seen resting on the outside of the web-nest or running freely imto the galler- 
ies leading to its interior(}). 
