194 LIFE-HISTORIES OF TINEID 
The pupa is in the case which is then hung from the ceiling by a thread, the 
pupa emerging at the upper end for the moth to escape ”’(?).* 
. Larve have been found at Pusa from November to March, walking on 
whitewashed walls. They rest motionless during the daytime and appear 
to move and feed only at night. The larva lives ina clumsy case which appears 
to be very large in comparison with its own size. It probably feeds on lichens. 
CRYPSITHYRIS MESODYAS, MEYR. 
Crypsithyris mesodyas, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 753 (1907)('). 
Described from Peradeniya where it was bred from a larva feeding on 
lichens on rocks and trees('). 
MONOPIS DICYCLA, MEYR. 
Monopis dicycla, Meyr., B. J., XVI, 618 (1905)('), Rec. Ind. Mus., V, 231 
(1910)(2). 
Recorded from Maskeliya in Ceylon(!), and from Calcutta(?). 
Larva destroying woollen cloth(?). 
MONOPIS HEMICITRA,* MEYR. 
Monopis hemicitra, Meyr., B. J., XVII, 417 (1906)(}). 
Originally described from Puttalam (Ceylon)(!), this species was bred 
at Coimbatore in June 1916 from larve in a Mantid egg-mass. 
MONOPIS MONACHELLA, HB. 
Tinea monachella, Hubner, Tin., f. 143('). 
Tinea longella, Wlk., Cat., XXVIII, 479 (1863)(?). 
Blabophanes longella, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, ITI, 503, t. 209, f. 1 (1887)(3). 
Blabophanes monachella, Meyr., T. E.8., 1894, 27(+), Handbk., p. 785 (1895)(°). 
Monopis monachella, W\sm., Fauna Hawaii, I, 727-728(*); Meyr., Entom. 
Mitteil. Suppl., III, p. 59 (1914)(”). 
A very widely distributed species, originally described from Europe(!), 
also recorded from Labrador, West and South Africa(®), Hawaii(®) and For- 
mosa(7). Within our limits it occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. 
We have it from Madulsima, Maskeliya, Nilgiris (4,300 feet), Palnis, Belgaum, 
Chapra, Pusa and Masuri. 
Larva among rubbish—in bird’s nests—in skins(*). 
* Note. I am uncertain whether this account really applies to this species. It almost 
certainly includes Macreola inquisitrix (g. v.) whose larva lives on dead organic matter 
and is seen commonly in a little case as described. The case is of course suspended by the 
larva prior to pupation. [T. B. F.] 
