112 LIFE-HISTORIES OF XYLORYCTIDE 
(4) Lachiwala Range, Siwaliks, and also from a firewood log (of uncertain 
origin) of Hugenia jambolana at Dehra Dun. Emergence took place 3} to 6 
months after the logs had been placed in the breeding cages, ten moths 
emerging between 15th March and Ist April and one moth on 24th October. 
Sphasneli ct A —ARISTEIS THWAITESII, MO. 
phacncls chro. Aprata thwaitesii, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, II, 107, t. 118, ff. 7, 74 (1883)() ; 
ieee VS Hampson, Faun. Ind. Moths, I, 304 (1892)(?). 
Trae Th. tod Apparently confined to Ceylon(! *). Larva in case on Eugenia (Syzygoum) 
(\4r-* J caryophyllaeum(?). 
Mr. Meyrick informs me (in ltt. 25th Feb. 1916) that this species is 
perhaps really native in one of the islands further East and carried to the 
Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya with its foodplant. 
PHYSOPTILIDA. 
PHYSOPTILA SCENICA, MEYR. 
Physoptila scenica, Meyr., B. J., XXII, 777 (1914)('). 
Described from Karwar, in North Kanara(!); in Pusa collection from 
Bababudin Hills, Mysore (November 1912). 
Larva in young (but not quite new) shoots of Careya arborea ; can be 
detected by excrement protruded in a bunch from the original entrance-hole 
in stem (Mazxvwell)('). 
XYLORYCTIDA. 
ey PTOCHORYCTIS SIMBLEUTA, MEYR. 
(fin ie i at ye Ptochoryctis sumbleuta, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 150 (1907)(!) ; Antram, Bark- 
(52, 0k a 
_- eating Borers of Tea, pp. 14-16, f. 8 (1907)(?). 
Metathrinca simbleuta, Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 535 (1909)(°). 
Recorded from several parts of Sylhet, where the larva is a pest on tea- 
bushes, eating away the bark. 
Larva about 12 mm. long, dark red-brown, head black; smooth and 
hairless. It builds on the bark a raised case made entirely of its own excreta 
spun together with silk, the upper and lower ends of this case being extended 
along the branch in the form of a loose web, under which covering the larva 
feeds, eating right through the bark into the wood of the stem. Pupa im 
silken cocoon attached to bark under the larval gallery ; light brown or 
yellowish, about 8 mm. long; pupal stage occurs during the latter half of 
February and March(?). 
