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i), BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 125 
Common throughout India (from Nepal and Dharmsala to Bombay and 
Madras) and Ceylon. We have it from Coimbatore (larva on Ficus), Hagari 
(larva on leaves of Ficus tisela), Pusa (larva on leaves of Ficus religiosa and 
F. glomerata), Kulu, Gurdaspur, Garhshankar (Punjab) (larva on Ficus carica) 
and from Peshawar (larva on Ficus carica). 
Larva about 20 mm. long, moderately stout, rather flattened, smooth ; 
with scattered short hairs, in colour dull yellowish-white with a broad inter- 
rupted dark stripe along the side, head and prothoracic shield red-brown, a 
broad dark band transversely across the back of meso- and meta-thoracic 
segments. The caterpillar rolls leaves of Ficus. Pupa red-brown, in a tough 
paper-like cocoon, occasionally spun on a leaf but more usually in a crack 
of the bark or similar situation ; pupal period about 15 days(§). 
The egg has not been observed but is probably laid on tender fig leaves. 
The larvee roll tender leaves, either folding over the edge of a leaf or tying 
one leaf over another, and eat the epidermis from within the roll. 
A young larva, about 10 mm. long, is rather flattened ; head flattened, 
yellow-brown, smaller than prothorax ; prothorax smaller than mesothorax, 
wholly dirty dark-brown or blackish, with a shiny black shield ; mesothorax 
slightly smaller than metathorax, dirty dark-brown, anteriorly banded with 
yellow; abdominal segments yellow: legs black; five pairs of prolegs 
yellow. 
The full-grown larva is about 22 mm. long, rather flattened ; head shiny 
yellow-brown, flattened, smaller than prothorax ; prothoracic shield large, 
shiny, dark brown; prothorax laterally whitish, ventrally blackish ; meso- 
thorax and metathorax blackish dorsally, laterally and ventrally whitish ; 
a whitish band between mesothorax and metathorax ; first abdominal segment 
yellowish with a faint black marking on lateral margin of submedian region ; 
remaining segments greyish-white ; submedian portions of second to sixth 
abdominal segments black ; upper part of seventh abdominal segment black 
and of eighth abdominal segment yellow with a pair of black points ; ninth 
abdominal segment yellowish anteriorly and blackish posteriorly ; a few long 
white hairs on each segment ; spiracles oval, rimmed with black. 
Pupation takes place within a flattened, oval, disc-shaped, dirty brown 
cocoon of rather papery texture, about 15 mm. long and 7 mm. broad. In 
warm weather the cocoon may be formed within folded leaves but in winter 
it is always formed on the trunk of the tree. Before emergence of the moth, 
the pupa wriggles out of the cocoon for about half its length. 
The moth is diurnal in habit and may be seen sucking nectar from flowers 
during the daytime. 
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Abenkiles phyorr 
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