T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER LY A 
Larvee were found at Pusa on 23rd January 1907 in a dry gurur (Poly- 
podium quercifolium) stem, almost the whole interior of the stem having been 
reduced to dust in which the larve lived and pupated. The larva was 
described as about 10 mm. long, slender, cylindrical, dirty white with small 
scattered hairs; head red-brown, bilobed; prothoracic shield brownish, 
skin rather transparent, the blackish imternal organs visible through ; five 
pairs of prolegs. Pupation in a white silken cocoon covered with dust and 
excrement. Pupa rather over 4 mm. long, brown, posterior portion of leg- 
cases separate and extending to anal extremity. The pupa wriggles out of the 
cocoon to some extent on emergence of the moth. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 
501.) 
This species has also been bred at Coimbatore from a larva found in 
bark of Papaya carica. 
OPOGONA FLAVOFASCIATA, STT. 
Lozostoma flavofasciata, Stainton, T. EH. 8. (n. s.) V, 124 (1859)('). 
Opogona flavofasciata, Petch, Ann. R. B. G. Peradeniya, IIT, 229 (1906)(?) ; 
Meyr., Rec. Ind. Mus., V, 230 (1910)(°). 
Originally described from Calcutta(!3), this species has been recorded 
from Peradeniya(?) and is found abundantly at Coimbatore. We have it 
from the Anamalais (3,600 feet), Coimbatore, Rangoon and Mandalay. 
Larva in fungus-combs of termites’ nests, which they reduce to a mass 
of excrementitious matter in a few days when cultures of combs are attempted, 
the cultures being resolved into a mass of black pellets. Though the moths 
are apparently confined to this habitat, it is remarkable that no trace of the 
larve or their work has been observed in the termites’ nest under natural 
conditions(7). 
OPOGONA PRACINCTA, MEYR. 
Opogona precincta, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 620 (1916)('). 
“Found at Coimbatore under a log associated with the termite Odonto- 
termes fee (Fletcher) ’’(!). A single specimen was found on 25th July 19)2. 
It is probable that the larva feeds in the nests of O. few. 
OPOGONA LACHANITIS, MEYR. 
Opogona lachanitis, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 416-417 (1906)(?). 
Opogona chalanitis, Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 540 (1909)(?). 
Described from Puttalam and Peradeniya, in Ceylon(?;. 
Larva in fungus-beds of termites(! *), 
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