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Also occurs in India at Hoshangabad, where I found the moths ae 
attracted to fungus-combs newly dug out of termitaria. We have it also 
from Chitorgarh (Rajputana), Nagpur, Bangalore and Coimbatore. 
OPOGONA FUMICEPS, F. & R. 
Opogona fumiceps, Felder, Lep. Novara, t. 139, f. 8 (1875)(); Moore, Lep. 
Ceylon, III, 526 (1887)(?) ; van Deventer, Tijds. voor Ent., XLVI, 83, 
t. 10, ff. 1a, 15 (1904)(3); Meyr., B. J., XVII, 986 (1907)(4). 
Recorded from Ceylon(?) * 4) and Java(* 4), 
Larva on Cocos nucifera(?). The larva and pupa are described and figured 
by van Deventer(*). 
[The species described by Swezey (Hawaii. Sugar Planters’ Assocn., Entl. 
Bull. 6, p. 19; 1909) as O. fumiceps, the larva feeding in sugarcane in New 
Guinea, is probably O. autophyta, Meyr., which is not Indian. | 
ERECHTHIAS ZEBRINA, BUTL.. 
Argyresthia zebrina, Butl., A. M. N. H. (5) VII, 403 (1881)('). 
Ereunetis lanceolana, Wlsm., P. Z. 8., 1897, 158(?). 
Ereunetis xenica, Meyr., Tr. Linn. Soc. (2) XIV, 301 (1911)(3), Rec. Ind. Mus., 
V, 230(4)£19 (0) 
Decadarchis xenica, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 367 (1915)(§). 
Erechtias zebrina, Meyr., T. E. 8., 1915, 253(§). : 
Ereunetis zebrina, Wism., Fauna Hawaii, I, 715-716, t. 25, f. 16 (1907)(7). 
This species has been recorded from the West Indies(* °), Brazil(’), 
British Guiana(®), Hawaii(# ®7), Borneo(* ®) and the Seychelles(* °). 
Within our limits it appears to be plentifulin Ceylon, where ithas been recorded 
from Puttalam, Kandy and Maskeliya(*), and is known in India from Cal- 
cutta(5), the Khasi Hills(?) and North Coorg(*). We have it from Shillong. 
The larva ‘is doubtless a refuse-feeder and artificially spread *(°). 
=m (Cc a PYLQHTIS MIMOSA, STT. (PLATE LI, FIG. 2) 
Laverna 2? mimose, Stainton, T. E. 8. (n.s.), V, 126 (1859)(1) ; Lefroy, Ind. 
Ins. Life, p. 536 (1909)(2). 
Ereunetis ? seminivora, Wlsm., Ind. Mus. Notes, IV, 107, t. 7, £. 2 (1898)(3) : 
Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 540 (1909)(*). 
Pyletis ophionota, Meyr., B. J.. XVII, 752 (1907)(°). 
Pyletis mimose, Meyr., Rec. Ind. Mus., V, 231 (1910)(°). 
Originally described from Caleutta(!) ; also recorded from Hooghly(*) 
and from Puttalam and Matale in Ceylon(*). Ihave also seen it from 
