92 LIFE-HISTORIES OF GELECHIADA 
ANARSIA EPHIPPIAS, nee (PLATE XX, FIG. 2.) 
Anarsia ephippias, Meyr., Ent. Mo. Mag., XLIV, 197 (1908)(4) ; Lefroy, 
Ind. Ins. Life, p. 534, t. 56 (1909)(2) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 
51, 53, 91 (1917)(3) ; Fletcher, Ann. Rept. Impl. Entom., 1917-18, pp. 
103-104 (1918) (4), Yee I Cattery TSS (Nev. \q2 ) 
This species is widely distributed in the Plains of India. In Bihar it 
has been found at Pusa, Chapra, Paddankaii and Gondra; at Paddankan 
(Champaran) and Gondra the larva occurred on indigo and at Pusa it has 
been found on groundnut, soybean, moth, urid and mung. In Southern India 
it has been noted at Saidapet (larva on Cajanus indicus), and at Virajpet, 
in South Coorg (larva on flowers of Acacia sp.). In the Punjab Madan Mohan 
Lal has recorded it as a fairly bad pest of groundnut(), but I have seen no 
specimens from the Punjab. At Mandalay also K. D. Shroff has found a small 
larva, perhaps of this species, boring top-shoots of wrd(?). At Pusa it is 
usually a minor pest of the crops mentioned above, the larva rolling the top- 
shoots and boring into the flower-buds, flowers and pods and eating the seeds. 
It may be noted that many closely-allied species of Anarsza occur in India 
and that many of these are attached to leguminous crops, so that careful 
discrimination of the species is necessary. . 
The larva ties together with silk the top-leaves, flower-buds or flowers 
on which it is feeding. When full-grown it is about 10 mm. long and about 
1:75 mm. broad across mid-body, rather flattened, segments distinct, dark 
red-brown, deep pinkish-brown, or dark purple ; head rather flattened, yellow- 
brown, shiny ; prothoracic ‘shield large, yellow-brown ; primary hairs short, 
arising from slightly raised tubercles ; legs black ; five pairs of equally deve- 
loped_ prolegs. 
Pupation takes place amongst the flowers or inside a rolled leaf. The 
pupa is about 5 mm. long, red-brown, anal extremity with a number of short 
circinate hairs on ventral surface and a few much longer hairs on apex. The 
pupal period is about five days in July and nine or ten days in November. 
(Pusa Insectary Cage-slips 72, 918, 1637.) 
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ANARSIA EPOTIAS, MEYR. 
Anarsia epotias, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 583 (June 1916)(}). 
Described from Pusa, where it has been reared from larvee found in Tamarix 
twigs on 10th May 1914. 
~ The larva webs several green twigs together lengthwise and lives hidden 
and feeds from within. The larva is about 12 mm. long, cylindrical, pale. 
