120 LIFE-HISTORIES OF HELIODINIDA 
The larva seems to be a feeder on dead vegetable matter, spinning 
together dead or drying leaves and nibbling irregular holes in them. 
STATHMOPODA SYCOPHAGA, MEYR., 
Stathmopoda sycophaga, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 87-88 (1913)(*). 
Reared at Pusa in May from larve in figs of Ficus glomerata('). — 
Larve were found at Pusa on 14th April 1907 in figs of Ficus glomerata 
and were described as about 15 mm. long, cylindrical, slightly tapering 
towards either extremity ; head and prothoracic shield brown, shiny ; body- 
segments distinct, pale yellow, segments with a brownish tinge and with 
small scattered hairs; five pairs of prolegs. The larva bores into the figs 
and eats the florets. Pupation takes place inside the fig in a white cocoon 
in which the pupa-case remains on the emergence of the moth. The larvee 
are parasitized by two Dipterous and three small Hymenopterous flies. The 
moths from these larve emerged between 29th April and 11th May 1907. 
(Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 529.) Sy 
STATHMOPODA BASIPLECTRA, MEYR, 
Stathmopoda basiplectra, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 97 (1913)(') ; Imms and Chat- 
terjee, Ind. For. Mem. (Zool.), HI, 32-33 (1915)(). 
Described from Ranipur, in the Hardwar District, where it was bred in 
April from ‘larva burrowing in seeds of Albizzia lebbek (Legumimose) in 
December, afterwards eating a hole through the wall of pod to emerge ”’('). 
““‘We have reared..... S. basiplectra, Meyr., from lac obtained from 
Ranipur in the Siwalik forests .... . There seems to be little doubt that its 
larva devours the lac, but it does not appear in sufficient abundance to warrant 
its being regarded as a serious enemy. We have bred out the insect from 
April to July and there is a specimen in the Forest Research Institute Collection 
that was obtained in November and bred out from lac by Mr. V. 8. Lyer ’’(?). 
STATHMOPODA PRAJALBATA, MEYR. 
Stathmopoda prealbata, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 337 (1915)(?). - 
This species has been bred at Pusa in February-March 1916 from fallen 
banyan (Ficus bengalensis) fruits collected in November 1915. We also have 
it from Chapra. 
STATHMOPODA SYCASTIS, MEYR” (PUATE SeCV ILS LIG eal) 
Stathmopoda sycastis, Meyr., Exot. Micr., IH, 62 (1917)() ; Proc. Second 
Entl. Meeting, p. 251 (1917)(2); (ian Wee 1 FM, eu T 15% (Nov. 1920) 
Bred in July at Tarnab, Peshawar District, from larva feeding in figs 
of Ficus carica (Fletcher)(*» 2). 
