108 LIFE-HISTORIES OF @COPHORIDA 
When at rest the moth sits with its wings closed over the body and bears 
a very close resemblance to a bird’s dropping. (Plate XXIV, fig. 6.) (Pusa 
Insectary Cage-slip 727 and unnumbered Cage-slip, dated 2nd July 1914.) 
Adult moths have been taken at Pusa i March, April, July, August and 
October. x 
TONICA TERASELLA, WLK, 
Tonica terasella, W\k., Cat., X XIX, 788(4). 
Tonica teratella, Meyr., B. ic XX., 167 (1910)(?). 
Originally described from Sarawak(!), this species has also been recorded 
from Sikkim(?) and Karwar(?). We have it from Sikkim. 
Pupa, erect on its tail, exposed ; found on a leaf of bamboo (Maawell)(?). 
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PsoROSTICHA ZI'2N0R' poniea-giZzvPHI, STT, (PLATE XXV, FIG. 1) 
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Depressaria zizyphi, Stamton, T. EH. 8. (ms.), V, 115-116 (1859)(4). 
Depressaria angusta, Wlsm., in Moore, Lep. Ceylon, III, 508, t. 209, f. 5 
(1887)(?). 
Tonica zizyphi, Meyr., B. J., XX, 167 (1910)(3) ; Fletcher, 8. Ind. Ins., p. 459, 
f. 335 (1914)(*) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 211 (1919)\(). 
Originally described from Calcutta(!), where it was bred from Zizyphus 
jujuba(?), Since recorded from Ceylon(?), Puttalam, Kegalle and Maske- 
liya(’), the Palni Hills(’) and Coimbatore(*). Common at Pusa and_pro- 
bably throughout India. It seems to be widely distributed in the Plains 
and we have it from Coimbatore (larva on orange), Chapra, Pusa (larva on 
orange, lemon and Murraya), and Peshawar (larva on orange). 
Larva described as “about 8 mm. long, slender, yellowish-green with a 
black head. It folds orange leaves longitudinally feeding on young leaves 
and the green matter of older ones. Pupa 6 mm. long, reddish-brown, in a 
cocoon of transparent white silk spun in the folded leaf; pupal period about 
four to five days ’(*). It feeds on Cvtrus of various species and may some- 
times prove a pest by eating back the tender shoots of young plants(*). 
The larva feeds on leaves of Citrus spp. and Murraya kenigit. “We have 
not found it on Zizyphus. When young the larve mine the leaves but after 
a short time they either tie up several apical leaflets together longitudmally 
or roll up a single young leaf by turning over the edge on to the blade and 
feed from within the roll; young tender leaves are always selected. 
The full-grown larva is about 15 mm. long and. 1:25 mm. broad, cylin-- 
drical, slightly tapering posteriorly, green in colour; head dull brown ; pro- 
thoracic shield large, black ; mesothoracic and metathoracic legs pale greenish. 
yellow ; primary hairs on segments short, dark brown, placed on tubercles 
