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Coimbatore and have taken it in March at Rajshahi, Bengal, so that it is 
doubtless widely distributed in the Plains of India and Ceylon. 
Larva in seeds of Acacia arabica('), in pods of Cassia fistula(?), in pods of 
Cassia corymbosa at Coimbatore. 
DECADARCHIS MINUSCULA, WLSM. 
Ereunetis minuscula, Wlsm., P. Z. S., 1897, 155-156("), Fauna Hawaii Micro- 
lep., p. 716, t. 15, £. 17 (1907)(2). 
Decadarchis minuscula, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 367 (1915)(?), Ann. Transvaal 
Mus., VI, 43 (1918)(4). 
A very widely-distributed species recorded from the West Indies('), “<< , 
South Africa(+), Hawaii(2) and Ceylon(3), lave, Ay’, Mernes E,Prttia  Semec. , 
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DECADARCHIS DISSIMULANS, MEYR. | Bg the 
Decadarchis dissimulans, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 368 (1915)(‘). 
Ereunetis melanastra, Meyr., B. J., XVI, 617 (1905) [nec Meyr., T. E. 8., 1886, 
291=simulans, Butl.](?). 
Described from Ceylon (Udagama, Peradeniya, Kega!le, and Kalutara)('). 
We have it from Udagama. 
Larva feeding on decaying bark of dead Hevea brasiliensis (Para 
rubber)(?), in dead bark and woed('). 
TISCHERIA PTARMICA, MEYR. 
Tischeria ptarmica, Meyr., Rec. Ind. Mus., II, 399 (1908)(1); Lefroy, Ind. 
Ins. Life, p. 540 (1909)(?); Imms and Chatterjee, Ind. Forest Mem. 
(Zool.), IIT, 32 (1915)(3); Stic, Coe. Crt breetce T. 165 (Nw. 1970) 
Described from Puri, in Orissa, where the larve were found “ mining 
small elongate blotches in leaves of Zizyphus jujubain January. The species 
occurred in great profusion, leaves an inch in diameter containing twenty 
or more larve and the moths are described as ‘ swarming like a cloud of midges 
round the tree.’ The mine, larval habits, and pupa are similar to those of 
European species ’’(!). 
Stainton (Nat. Hist. Tin., III, 228) says of the larval habits of the Euro- 
pean species :—‘‘ These mine the interior of leaves, and as far as is yet known, 
always the upper side, making large irregularly formed blotches of whitish 
or brownish colour; the interior of the mine is always beautifully carpeted 
with white silk, but the peculiarity of these mines is, that they are kept perfectly 
clean, not a single grain of excrement being ever to be found within”.,...,. 
