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INCURVARIADA, 
The only species of this family recorded as Indian is Eriocottis fuscanella, 
Z., an inhabitant of South Europe and Asia Minor, recorded from Karachi 
by Cotes and Swinhoe (Cat. Moths India, p. 704) and whose larval habits do 
not seem to be known. In the Kuropean genus Incurvaria “‘ the larve either 
begin life as leaf-miners, afterwards living in flat cases formed of two pieces 
of leaf, or they are shoot-borers.” (Stainton, Nat. Hist. Tin., XIII, 56.) 
ADELIDA. 
Some twenty-five species of the genus Nemotois have been recorded as 
occurring within our limits, mostly in the Hills, the moths being easily recog- 
nisable by their immensely long antenne and usually brilliant metallic markings, 
but the early stages of no Indian species appear to be known. In Europe 
the larve ‘‘ feed on seeds in their earliest youth, and afterwards construct 
flat, bivalve cases and feed on the lower leaves of their foodplant or on other 
leaves.’ (Stainton, Nat. Hist. Tin., XIII, 194.) 
NEPTICULIDA. 
The known larve of Nepticula mine galleries or blotches in leaves, and 
are without developed legs or prolegs, but with paired rudimentary ventral 
processes on segments 3, 4 and 6-11, or occasionally quite apodous. Pupa 
in a firm cocoon, usually outside the mine. A full account of the group is 
given by Tutt (Bri. Lep., I, 162-360). 
NEPTICULA ARGYRODOXA, MEYR. 
Nepticula argyrodova, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 181-182 (1918)(°). 
“ Bred at Pusa in November from larva’ mining leaves of Desmodium 
sp. (Leguminose) *’('). 
Larve were found at Pusa on 13th November 1916 mining under the 
epidermal layer on the upper surface of the leaves of Desmodium sp. The 
mine is narrow and zigzag and may spread all over the surface of the leaf. 
Inside the mine there is a thin streak of excrement. When the larva is full-fed 
it leaves the mine and forms a roundish, flattened, scale-like, brown, silken 
cocoon either on the surface of the same leaf or on its stalk orstemor on another 
leaf. The pupa emerges partially through one end of the cocoon before the 
moth emerges, and the empty pupa-case is left protruding from the cocoon. 
Moths were reared between 21st November and 3rd December 1916. Several 
parasites were also bred out. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 1496.) 
