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126 LIFE-HISTORIES OF GLYPHIPTERYGIDA 
The larve occur at Pusa from April to November. Hibernation appa- 
rently takes place in the pupal, and possibly also in the larval, state. From 
cocoons collected during the winter moths emerged in March-May. (Pusa 
Insectary Cage-slip 255.) 
SIMAETHIS OPHIOSEMA, LOWER. 
Simaethis ophiosema, Low., Trans. Royal Soc. 8. Austral., XX, 167 (1896)(4) ; 
Meyr., Cat. Glyphipt., p. 35 (1913)(?). 
? Simaethis reqularis, Pag., Jahrh. Nass. Verh. Naturk., XX XVII, 288 (1884)(3). 
Originally described from Australia(4), S. ophiosema has also been recorded 
from China(?), the Moluccas(2) and India(?). 
This species has been bred at Pusa from a larva found on 6th October 
1912, letting itself down by a silken thread from a bamboo overhanging the 
road. The larva was about 13 mm. long, cylindrical, tapering slightly towards 
either extremity, head brown, body uniformly light yellow spotted with black 
like the larva of Antigastra catalaunalis. The larva formed an elongated 
white cocoon of white silk lining a folded bamboo leaf on 7th October, pupated 
on 8th and emerged on 13th October. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 968.) 
We have this insect from Srinagar (Kashmir), Pusa, Coimbatore and 
Pollibetta (South Coorg). At Pusa the moths occur from October to January. 
SIMAETHIS ORTHOGONA, MEYR. S<z He 208, b+ ty 
Simaethis orthogona, Meyr., T. E. S., 1886, 287-288(), Proc. Linn. Soe. 
N.S. W., XXXII, 114 (1907)(?), Ree. Ind. Mus., V, 226(3), Cat. Glyphipt., 
p- 35 (1913)(*) ; Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 538 (1909)(5). 
Simaethis inscriptana, Snell., Tijds. voor Ent., XVIII, 76, t. 6, f. 6 [Q] (1875) 
[nec o\(). 
Recorded from {ndia, Burma and Ceylon. Also in New Guinea and 
Celebes. We have it from Pusa, Chapra, Nadiad and the Shevaroys. 
Larva green with a brown head and a row of black tubercles on each 
side of the body ; it feeds on the leaves of Psoralea corylifolia, pupating under 
a slender white cocoon on the leaf(§). 
There appears to be some error in the above description. The larve 
have been bred on two occasions at Pusa by A. Mujtaba and the foodplant 
is recorded as sahora or sahra (Streblus sp.), whilst the larvee were described 
as 7 to 8 mm. long, tapering posteriorly, dark grey or honey yellow, head 
reddish-yellow, segments with numerous black dots from which white hairs 
arise. Pupa 5 mm. long, light-brown or lemon-yellow, wriggling half-way cut 
