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Extensive mines are formed, covering the greater portion of the stem and some 
of the petioles of the leaves. As a result a thin somewhat transparent whitish 
paper-like membrane is formed, under the shelter of which the larva is visible. 
(Plate LXV, fig. a.) 
The larva (Plate LXV, fig. 6) is about 5 mm. long, rather flattened, 
about 0°7 mm. across the thoracic region, thence tapering slightly posteriorly, 
last two segments much narrower, segments clearly marked, uniform yellow ; 
head flattened, smaller than prothorax into which it is partially retractile ; 
legs and very short prolegs uniform yellow. 
When full-fed the larva leaves its mine and forms a circular paper-like 
cover in a corner or depression on a stem or leaf and pupates in this cocoon, 
each larva forming a separate cocoon for itself. Moths (Plate LXV, fig.d ) 
emerged on 20th and 21st September 1918. (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 1852.) 
v - / 
ACROCERCOPS MALICOLA, MEYR. Mf Exot Puc © 4ib |... 192! ) 
Bred at Shillong in June 1918 by Y. Ramachandra Rao from larve 
feeding on bark of apple. 
EPERMENIADA. 
EPIMARPTIS PHILOCOMA, MEYR. (ante, page 169.) 
Bred [at Karwar ?] from larve found plentifully on leaves of Butea fron- 
dosa and Xylia dolabriformis. The larva is reddish-brown, prothoracic plate 
rather darker, the body-segments with dark spots, emitting hairs, each sur- 
rounded by a lighter ring. ‘It leaves in a dirty-looking whitish and roundish 
web on the upper surface of the leaf. The web always adjoins a main vein 
and is kept off the surface of the leaf by five or six slender columns of excre- 
ment spun with silk, rendering the larva invisible. The excrement is also 
scattered on the outer surface of the web, giving it a rusty appearance, the 
rustiness being more marked in the case of webs formed on leaves of Xylva 
dolabriformis. Immediately opposite the upper web there is a similarly con- 
structed web of much smaller size on the under-surface of the leaf, connected 
with the upper web by a small hole of escape through which the larva dodges 
with great agility when disturbed in either abode. Pupation takes place in a 
creamy spindle-shaped cocoon about 6 mm. long and pointed at both ends, 
often spun between two leaves, but sometimes exposed on leaf surface. In 
1911 a specimen was bred from a cocoon which was separate, close to mid-rib, 
oval, resembling a birds-dropping. From larve which pupated in December 
1915 the first moth emerged on Sth April 1916, one day after the first rain. 
The moth is very sluggish at night and appears to be diurnal. (Mazrwell.) 
