110 LIFE-HISTORIES OF G@COPHORIDA: 
larva lives in a case composed of minute fragments of moss, sand and lichens. 
The anterior end of the case is dilated into a shield-like hood, which hides 
and protects the head of the larva when feeding. The materials worked into 
the under-surface of the hood in one specimen are composed entirely of minute 
fragments of mica. The larva, when disturbed, retires completely into the tube. 
It feeds upon small mosses and lichens upon rocks and trees. Before pupating, 
the larva folds down the edges of the hood over the mouth of the tube, like 
an envelope, fastening them with silk. The case is fixed to the rock or other 
support, and hangs there until the moth appears (Green)(2). 
PSEUDODOXIA PALIMPSESTA, MEYR. (PLATE XXV, FIG. 2.) 
Pseudodoxia palimpsesta, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 308 (1915)(4). 
Described from Hazaribagh. 
This species was reared from larvee found feeding on bark of mango twigs 
at Hazaribagh on 19th May 1911. In the Insectary they were placed on a 
growing mango plant but were observed to feed very little. They were therefore 
supplied with bare green twigs on which they were seen to feed a little, nibbling 
only the epidermis. 
The larva was described in May 1911 as about 8 mm. long, cylindrical, 
tapering posteriorly ; head dirty dark brown, with a roughened or somewhat 
pitted surface, provided with very thin longish hairs, perfectly flattened or 
truncated in front, the flat surface somewhat depressed in the middle ; pro- 
thorax entirely covered with a dirty dark brown shield, divided longitudinally 
in the middle by a faint yellowish line ; rest of body soft, pale yellow, posteriorly 
with a pinkish tinge; segments distinct and wrinkled into transverse folds ; 
the thoracic legs dark brown or blackish, shiny ; five pairs of prolegs short, 
crochets arranged in an incomplete circle and differing in size, crochets on 
anal prolegs arranged in a line. 
The larva lives in a cylindrical horn-shaped case, which is curved on 
one side, about 16 to 18 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad across the anterior 
extremity and tapering almost to a point posteriorly, the broad end being 
truncated and open. The larva protrudes its head and legs through this 
anterior end of the case and thus hangs to the twigs and feeds. The posterior 
end of the case is also open but is blocked by the cast larval skins which are 
packed into this end. The interior of the case is clean and contains nothing 
but these cast skins, the pellets of frass being thrown out through the open 
end of the case. 
-Pupation takes place within the larval case, the open mouth of which 
is closed by two layers of brown silk. In captivity the case was not attached 
