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and jump when touched. The full-grown larva is about 20 mm, long and 2°5 
mm. across the middle, tapering towards either end, flattened, pale-yellow of 
different shades in individual larve according to size and amount of food 
ingested, but the dorsal vessel is clearly visible in all ; head flattened, glossy 
brown (very dark in young larve); prothoracic shield large, dark-brown, 
rather dull, and with a faint dorsal line (in young larvee concolorous with 
head) ; first two pairs of legs dark, the third pair and five pairs of short equally- 
developed prolegs concolorous with the body. 
Pupation takes place within rolled petals which have been lined with silk. 
The pupa is from 7 to 10 mm. long, cylindrical, tapering towards either extre- 
-mity, brown varied with darker; abdominal segments with double dorsal 
rows of posteriorly-directed spines ; anal segment with a number of circinate 
hairs which remain entangled in the fibres of the cocoon. 
From these larvee moths emerged between 29th October and 3rd 
November. (Pusa Insectary Cage-ship 1936.) 
(dca LASPEYRESHA CAPPARIDANA, Z. (ante, page 63.) 
This has also been reared at Pusa from larvee collected on 4th September 
1919 feeding in top-shoots of bagnahi (Capparis sp.). These larve 
commenced to pupate on 7th September, and moths emerged between 13th 
and 19th September. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 1924.) 
The specimens reared from these larve are very small and dark; 
Mr. Meyrick remarks (in litt.) that the species appears to vary climatically or 
seasonally, perhaps also by feeding on different species of Capparis. 
Ch Ext Ms SSE 
; )0-% LASPEYRESHA PERFRICTA, MEYR. 8. (PLATE LXI, FIG. 2.) 
Larvee were collected at Pusa on 3rd and 31st August 1919, boring into 
shoots of Pongamia glabra. The larva (Plate LXI, fig. 2a) is rather 
over 8 mm. long and 1:25 broad, pale-yellow ; head brown ; prothoracic 
shield small, light-brown, medially divided. Pupation generally takes place 
ina thinly built cocoon formed inside the stem within the larval tunnel. The 
pupa (Plate LXI, fig. 2b) is rather less than 5 mm. long and rather more 
than 1 mm. broad, yellowish-brown. From larve which pupated on 9th 
September, moths (Plate LXI, fig. 2c) emerged on 17th and 18th Septem- 
ber. Moths have also been reared out in December. (Pusa Insectary Cage- 
slip 1914.) 
39% (or. 19 
PAMMENE QUERCIVORA, MEYR. M8. Ex@thnc. Ue 351 
Bred at Shillong on 8rd July 1918 by Y. Ramachandra Rao from larve 
feeding on leaves of Quercus griffithii. 
