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Pupation takes place within a thin white silken cocoon which is normally 
spun amongst the flowers of the food-plant. Pupa pale yellowish-brown. 
(Plate LXIIT, fig. 2b.) The moth (Plate LXIII, fig, 2c) may be beaten from 
bushes of Colquhounia coccinea. 
HELIOZELID 2. 
ANTISPILA ARISTARCHA, MEYR. (ante, page 119.) 
Bred in August 1913, at Karwar, from larvee found on Vitis sp. in numerous 
transparent blotches formed between both cuticles. Numerous larvee were 
found in each leaf and the blotches were occasionally confluent. The excrement 
forms a wavy line in the deserted portion of the blotch. (Mazvwell.) 
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ANTISPILA ANNA, MEYR. 468. Exot. Px. i. 405 Jenn. “ie, 
This species has been found at Serampore by Mrs. Annie Drake who, in ae Sex. Ren. cs 
her letter dated 24th November 1919, wrote :—“ About the middle of July, Leal ae ) P sh, 
I noticed a curious wee thing like a fragment of leaf on a leaf of Hugenia see atte 
jyambolana, and on holding it up to the light could see the movements of the larva 
inside it. After a little over a week the mothemerged. I only found two more 
cocoons at that time and they had evidently been parasitized, each having 
aminute round hole at one side whereas the one from which the moth came 
had the pupal shell protruding from the top of the cocoon.......... 
Yesterday I found more of these interesting cocoons, five of them on 
leaves and three on the trunk of the tree.’ Some of these cocoons were 
sent to Pusa and from them we were able to rear out the moths. In 
sending a further consignment of cocoons, in her fetter of 20th March 
1920, Mrs. Drake wrote: “‘The moth appears to deposit its eggs singly at 
the apex of the leaves of Eugenia jambolana, Lam., and to select the 
leaves on the highest branches. On holding the leaf up to the light one 
can see the larva between the epidermal layers. It seems to confine itself 
to one side of the mid-rib and keeps to the upper end of the leaf. When 
ready to pupate it cuts the leaf through around itself and lowers itself 
by a silken thread and is borne hither and thither by the breeze till at last 
it alights on a leaf or a branch lower down in the tree to which it at once 
fastens its cocoon. The moth emerges about a week later in the day time. The 
pupa is protruded from the apex of the cocoon. Those that are parasitized 
have a minute hole in the side of the cocoon from which the Hymenopteron 
has emerged.” 
