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HYPONONEUTA MALINELLA, Z.” 
Hyponomeuta malinellus, Zeller, Iss 1844, 220; Wlsm., P. Z. 8., 1885, 883. 
Recorded from Poona by Lorl Walsingham but probably in error. It 
is not otherwise known to be Indiar, aithough quite likely to be (or to have 
been) introduced with garden shrubs, Its distribution includes Central and 
Southern Europe, Asia Minor and Japan. 
HYPONOMEUTA LAPIDELLA, WLSM. 
Hyponomeuta lapidellus, Wism., P. Z. 8., 1880, 86, t. 12, f. 1. 
Described from Dharmsala('). 
“Larva pale yellowish ochreous, with a double row of elongate black 
spots just touching each other on the middle of each segment, and connected 
by a slender black subdorsal line, except between the third and fourth segment, 
where it is interrupted by a band of the pale ground-colour. Below the 
subdorsal line is a row of reniform black spots on each segment after the 
fourth. Head black; second segment with two brownish-fuscous plates 
divided by a yellowish line. Anterior legs black ; prolegs yellowish ochreous ; 
a few single scattered hairs on each segment. Larve found at an elevation 
of about 4,500 feet near Dharmsala, 12th July, feeding on ‘* soongroo ”’ (wild 
Salvia) ; moths emerged Ist August('). 
ATTEVA FABRICIELLA, SWED. 
Tinea fabriciella, Swederus, Kngl. Svensk. Vet. Ak. nya Handl., VIII, 277 
(1787)(*). 
Corinea niviguttella, Wlk., Cat., XXVIII, 542-543 (1863)(2). 
Atteva fabriciella, Wlsm., in Swinh. Cat. Het. Oxf. Mus., I, 559 (1900)() ; 
Fletcher, 8. Ind. Ins., pp. 461-463, f. 338 (1914)(4) tn Poe Guat . buat 
Common throughout Southern India, from Bombay and Nagpur south- 
wards. Also known from Borneo. 
“The eggs are creamy-white, rounded, flattened, and beautifully sculp- 
tured ; they are laid, usually on the lower surface of leaves, either singly or 
in small groups. The caterpillars live gregariously in a common web of fine 
silk spun over the leaves and shoots of the foodplant, which, in conjunction 
with larvee of Eligma narcissus, they may sometimes completely defoliate. 
The full-grown caterpillar is about 20 mm. long, moderately stout, smooth, 
with scattered short hairs arising from small whitish warts, head blackish, body 
greenish-grey with paler longitudinal stripes, one faint one down the back 
edged on either side by a more distinct stripe, and a well-defined stripe along 
each side. Pupa orange-brown, in a transparent boat-shaped cocoon spun 
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