130 LIFE-HISTORIES OF BLASTOBASIDA 
The larva remains hidden in the flower-heads, which show no external 
signs of injury, and eats the bases of the calyx tubes. It was described in 
1906 as about 10 mm. long, cylindrical, uniform yellowish-white, body regularly 
corrugated ; head flat, reddish-black, shiny ; a prothoracic shield and five 
pairs of prolegs. (Insectary Cage-slip 240.) 
The larva pupates within a calyx tube in a thin silvery- Soiite silken 
cocoon. The pupa is about 5 to 6 mm. long by 1:75 mm, broad, shining 
brick-red ; head and prothorax bent downwards and thus not visible from 
above ; mesothorax longest ; metathorax nearly a third length of mesothorax ; 
eight abdominal segments very distinct ; wing-pad of anterior wing reaching 
base of eighth abdominal segment ; spiracles very prominent ; a small hair 
near spiracle on ninth abdominal (anal) segment. (C. S. Misra’s Cage-slip of 
26th January 1916.) 
From larve collected on 9th December 1905, and which commenced to 
pupate on 11th December, moths emerged from 12th February to 10th April 
1906, and from flower-heads collected on 26th January 1916 the moths 
emerged from 28th January to 25th February. 
PROSINTIS FLORIVORA, MEYR. La 
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Prosintis florivora, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 598 (June 1916)(1); 0% a [Nwe.1920 
Described from Madulsima and Pusa('). ; 
Bred at Pusa in June from larva feeding in inflorescence of Mangifera 
idica('), Also reared at Pusa in August from larva on mango. 
HOLCOCERA PULVEREA, MEYR. 
Blastobasis pulverea, Meyr., B. J., XVIII, 151 (1907)(?). 
Hypatima doleropa, Meyr., !.c.(?). 
Hypatima jpulverea, Meyr., t.c., p. 638(3); Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 536 
(1909)(*) ; Misra, Pusa Bull. 28, p. 24 (1912)(5); Imms and Chatterjee, 
Ind. For. Mem. (Zool.), If, 31-32, t. 7, f. 24 (1915)(6). 
Blastobasis thelymoipha, Imms and Chatterjee, I.c., p. 32 (1915)(7). 
Originally described from “ India (without further locality). Bred from 
larvee feeding on colonies of Tachardia lacca’’(') and from the Satpura Range, 
Khandesh, where it was found “* parasitic in lac in company with the Noctuid 
Eublemma amabilis ’’(?). The name doleropa is a synonym of pulverea, whilst 
thelymorpha (thelymoipha [sic !], Imms & Chatt.) is a nomen nudum. 
The larva feeds not only on the insect on the tree but in the dry shellac 
on the cut stick(* °). 
“ Hypatima pulverea is even more abundant than EHublemma amabilis 
and, in spite of its smaller size, is almost equally destructive, It is common 
