T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER tap 
Ethmia assamensis, Durrant, P. Z. 8., 1906, 496(3) ; Meyr., Cat. Hyponomeuta, 
p. 27 (1913)(4). 
Psecadia hockingella, Wlsm., P. Z. 8., 1880, 90-91, t. 12, ff. 8, 9, 9a(5), 
Occurs from Kashmir and Dharmsala along the Himalayas to Sikkim. 
Cachar and the Naga Hills. We have it from Khatmandu (Nepal). 
Larva on “ Poonah” (probably Ehretia serrata) in April and May at 
Dharmsala. Described(®) as ‘* wonderfully active with a snake-like motion, 
exceedingly swift, either backwards or forwards at pleasure ” (Hocking). 
Description of preserved larva :—*“‘ pale yellow and black, with a tinge 
of orange at the side of each segment. Head black with a pale yellowish 
stripe across the face, second segment orange and black. Along the middle 
of back is a row of conspicuous pale yellow spots, two on each segment after 
the third, the anterior spot slightly indented at the sides and behind, sharply 
indented in front with black, the second somewhat square, with a black spot 
in its centre. On each side of the back is a reduplicated black stripe, contain- 
ing about three pale yellowish spots on each segment. The sides of the 
segments about the spiracles are pale yellowish with an orange tinge, spotted 
with black ; and above the legs runs a narrow black festooned stripe. There 
are several wart-like tufts of thinly growing hairs on each segment. Anterior 
legs black, prolegs pale yellowish ”’(°). 
ANTICRATES LUCIFERA, MEYR. 
Anticrates lucifera, Meyr., B. J., XXIII, 128-129 (1914)('). 
Described from Karwar, in North Kanara; larva on Sideroxylon tomen- 
tosum (Sapotacew) ; cocoon on leaf('). . 
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COLEOPHORID&. ee We fide) 
The early stages of no Indian species seem to be known. | 
Outside of India, the members of the genus Coleophora usually mine in 
leaves or seeds as young larve, later on living in a portable case, composed 
of cut fragments of leaf fastened together with silk, or of the empty husk of 
a seed which they have eaten out. The larve have all legs present, but the 
abdominal prolegs are little developed, as they are not used for walking ; 
plate of 2 well-developed, usually dark and divided medially ; plates of 3 and 4 
usually developed, divided medially and transversely ; plate of 13 developed. 
Numerous life-histories in this group are described in Volumes 4 and 5 of 
Stainton’s Natural History of the Tineina. 
Rhadinastis contains an Australian species whose larva is a true 
gall-producer on Acacia. 
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