88 LIFE-HISTORIES OF GELECHIADZ 
AUTOSTICHA EXEMPLARIS, MEYR. ~ 
Autosticha exemplaris, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 586-587 (June 1916)(}). 
Described from Coimbatore, where it was bred in October, together 
with various other Lepidoptera, from refuse in the fork of a tamarind-tree. 
It is doubtful whether the present species is a refuse-feeder, it may only have 
entered for pupation or been carried in with leaves ; the known Ceylon larve 
of this genus are lichen-feeders ; on the other hand, the Hawaiian species, 
pelodes, is a refuse-feeder and it is therefore possible that exemplaris may be 
one also. 
One of the specimens reared at Coimbatore from this lot was a teratological 
example, with two small duplicate hindwings on the right side. This specimen 
has been placed in the British Museum (Natural History) Collection. 
AUTOSTICHA PROTYPA, MEYR. 
Autosticha protypa, Meyr., B. J., XVIII, 457-458 (1908)(}). 
Described from Ceylon (Maskeliya, Maturatta, and Peradeniya), where 
the larva lives in galleries on lichen on rocks(?). 
RACHY ACMA LATHONTSEENUS  pARAGPISTRES PALPIGERA, WLSM. ’ 
Gelechia palpigera, Wism., T. E. 8. 1891, 94, t. 4, f. 31 (1891)(}). 
vid OF Paraspistes toloncha, Meyr., B. J., XVI, 600 (1905)(?), Tr. Linn. Soe. (2) XIV, 
Dunner 4 (0) 974 (1911)(3). Rie 
het S- BON. Lipitia crotalariella, Buseck, Bull. Dept.\ Trini dad, IX, 243 (1910)(4). 
Paraspistes pilpigera, Busck, Proc. U. S. ee Mus., XLVII, 10-11 (Apl. 
1914), B) tine fm ls is, & puais , C AS4 (Nw. 
Originally described from Delagoa Bay, East Africa(4), this species has 
been reared at Coimbatore in August and September 1916, im some numbers 
in indigo pods and also from larve in pods of Cassia corymbosa and Cassia 
flora. At Manganallur it was also reared from wild indigo. We have this 
- species from Puttalam (Ceylon), Pollibetta (Coorg), Coimbatore, Manganallur, 
and Bhamo (Burma), and it has also been recorded from Peradeniya(?), 
where it was reared in July from pods of Crotalaria(?), from the Seychelles(*), 
from the British West Indies(**), where the larva was also found in pods 
of Crotalaria(#), and from the Bahamas(®), and Panama(®). 
HYPELICTIS ALBISCRIPTA, MEYR. 
Hypelictis albiscripta, Meyr., B. J., XXII, 773 (1914)(?). 
Reared in North Kanara from pupa found between closely-spun leaves of 
Salix(?). 
