180 LIFE-HISTORIES OF LYONETIADZ® 
‘The larva never quits the mine, and changes therein to a pupa, not spinning 
any cocoon.” 
“ Stebbing [4 Note on the Lac Insect (Ind. For. Mem.) (Zool.), I, 21 (1910)] 
mentions that Dr. N. Annandale has bred out specimens of this small moth 
from lac obtained from Orissa ”’(*). It is more probable that the moths 
emerged from leaves on ber branches on which the lac was collected. 
OPOSTEGA MYXODES, MEYR. (PLATE LII.) 
Opostega myxodes, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 619 (1916)(?). 
Bred at Pusa in September and October 1915 from larvae mining in leaves 
of Cordia myxa (Boraginaceze)('). 
Larve were found at Pusa on 24th September 1915 mining leaves of 
Cordia myxa. The larva pupates outside of the mine on any convenient 
surface in a dull-white cocoon of uniform texture, pupation occurring in an 
inner cocoon spun inside the outer one. The moths emerged on Ist and 2nd 
October. 
