T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 119 
ANTISPILA ARISTARCHA, MEYR. | Se< “4:0 @: 2° 
Antispila aristarcha, Meyr., Exot. Micr., IT, 8 (Oct. 1916)(+). 
Bred at Karwar, North Kanara, “in August from larve mining trans- 
parent blotches in leaf of Vitis sp. (many larvee in a leaf) (Maxwell). Cocoons 
sent by Mr. Maxwell are apparently formed of two rather irregular grey discs 
of leaf-cuticle joined at the edges, with several projecting spinous filaments 
at each end, which are probably natural projections of the leaf, about + length 
of cocoon ’’(!). 
HELIODINID. 
STATHMOPODA HEMITORNA, MEYR. 
Stathmopoda hemitorna, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 97 (1913)(') ; l.c., I, 62 (1917)(2). 
Originally described from Siruguppa (Bellary), this species has since been 
recorded from Dharwar and bred at Coimbatore ‘“‘ from refuse collected in 
fork of tamarind (Tamarindus indica) (Fletcher); probably therefore the 
larva feeds in the pods’’(?). It seems more probable that the larve were 
feeding on the dead leaves collected in the fork of the tree. 
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STATHMOPODA THEORIS, MEYR. 
Moloscelis theoris, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 410-411 (1906)(*). 
Stathmopoda theoris, Meyr., t. c. p. 983(?), T. L. 8. (2) XIV, 286 (1911)(°), 
Entom. Mitteil. Suppl., III, p. 56 (1914)(*) ; Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 537 
(1909)(5) ; Imms and Chatterjee, Ind. For. Mem., III, 32, t. 7, f. 23 eS te 
(1915)(6) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 96 (1917)(7)tissn , hire 1 EAT. rering be PO UN” 
Common throughout India and Ceylon(') ; also recorded from Formosa(4). 
Larva feeds in flower-heads of sunflower (Helianthus) (*:). 
Larva slender, black, naked, with five pairs of prolegs, head and_pro- 
thoracic shield black ; found feeding in sunflower heads, the seeds apparently 
not eaten, but the dried remains of the flowers(). 
“We have reared ..... Strathmopoda theoris, Meyr., from lac received 
from Bhandara and Jubbulpore..... we have not reared a sufficient number 
of examples to definitely prove that it is an undoubted enemy of lac, and not 
merely only accidentally associated with it ’’(8). 
This species has been reared at Coimbatore on cholam ear-heads, from 
refuse found in the fork of a tamarind tree, and from palm-fibre chewed by 
Oryctes rhinoceros ; and at Pusa from sunflower heads, from a rotten peach- 
fruit, from ripe fallen gular (Ficus glomerata) fruit, from drying balsam leaves, 
from dry cotton and Acacia arabica leaves, and from cotton shoots badly 
affected by a mealy-bug. We have it also from Surat and from Dinanagar 
(Punjab). | 
