106 LIFE-HISTORIES OF @COPHORIDA 
The larva is figured by Buckler(?), but without description. Meyrick 
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describes it as “ yellowish-white ; head red-brown ; plate of 2 pale ochreous ; 
on seeds, dried plants, skins, ete.’’(3). 
At Ootacamund a moth was found inside a bee-hive and in the Palni 
Hills this species has been found breeding on dry hides. 
MACROBATHRA NOMA, MEYR. 
\ VU? (914 
Macrobathra nomea, Meyr., Exot. Micr.,/ II, 212 (1918)(2). 
“Bred [at Coimbatore] from refuse lodged in fork of Tamarindus indica 
(Leguminose) ; no doubt the larva fed on the leaves as usual in the genus, 
which is wholly confined to the Leguminose ’’(!). 
This species has been bred at Coimbatore from refuse found in the fork 
of a tamarind tree. 
TONICA BARROWI, BINGHAM. 
Binsitta barrowi, Bingh., T. E. 8., 1907, 177-179, t. 13(). 
This species was described(!), from Maymyo, in Upper Burma, where 
the recently-emerged moth was found seated on the empty shell of the pupa 
which was fixed on to a twig of Bombax malabaricum. “‘In colour the pupa 
is yellowish-brown, the head is blunt, and with the thorax and wing-cases 
broad and flattened. On the ventral side the fourth segment has two closely 
approximate tubercles placed transversely, between which is a longitudinal 
short white streak; fifth to twelfth segments with transverse rows of small 
conical projections, constrictions between the segments strongly marked ; 
seventh segment with a large conspicuous rounded black tubercle on each 
side, behind each of which is a larger pale yellow or white tubercle ; on the 
broad flattened truncated head, dividing the ventral from the dorsal side, 
is an impressed dark line. The pupa is fixed by its tail end ina semi-erect 
position to the twig on which it was found, and bears...... a striking resem- 
blance to the head of a snake and, strange to say, of a bird-eating tree-snake 
(Lycodon aulicus, Linn.) which is far from uncommon in Burma.” 
TONICA NIVIFERANA, WLK. (PLATE XXIV.) 
Binsitta niviferana, Wik., Cat., XXIX, 832(!); Wlsm., P. Z. S., 1885, 884(2) ; 
Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 535 (1909)(3). 
Tonica nwiferana, Meyr., B. J., XX, 167 (1910)(4) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 
p. 131, tab. (1917)(5); Hiner. Cae. 10 CAC. mung Lib Nw. (920 ) 
Widely distributed in India and Ceylon. Recorded from Andamans, 
Solan, Sikkim(*), Calcutta(2 4), Bombay(4), Karwar(#) and Peradeniya(‘). 
