20 LEPIDOPTEKA HETEROCERA 



Imago resting with forepart considerably raised, and two anterioi pairs of legs prominently 



displayed. 



Larva cylindrical, tapering posteriorly, legs and prolegs more or less well developed; usually 



mining blotches in leaves, but in the more primitive forms sometimes in lad-st stage rolling a piec e < I 

 a leaf into a conical chamber, as in Graoilaria. 



Pupa in a cocoon outside the mine. 



Foodplants (know n for 1 8 species) diverse, representing 8 Orders; the Myrtaceat an- especially 

 frequented by primitive forms, the Leguminosae and Compositae by those later developed. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Cosmopolitan, but the more primitive forms in- 

 most numerous in the Indian region, which is doubtless the place of origin, spreading thence into 

 Australia and New Zealand: in the other regions only the higher forms occur. 



GROUP A 



i . P. latifolidla, Milliere, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 2 19, pi. 5, f. to-i3 ( 1887). S. Europe. 

 — Plate, Figs. 22a, b. 



neglictns, Silvestri. Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici, Vol. 2, p. 199(1908 . 



2. P. pulverella, Walsingham, Proc Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 1 53 (1897). VV. Indies. 



3. P. aethalota, Mevrick. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S Wales, p. 143 (1880). New Zealand. 



4. P. texanella, Busck. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 3o, p. 732(1906). N. America. 



5. P. grisella, van Deventer, Tijdschr. v. Ent. Vol. 47, p. 27, pl.2,f. 3(1904). Java. 



6. P. capnias, Meyrick, Journ. Bomb Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 18, p. 826 (1908). Ceylon. 



7. P. picroglossa, nov. sp. 1), Meyrick. Ceylon. 



8. P. epibathra, Walsingham, Faun. Haw. Vol. 1, p. 722, pi. 2 5, f. 27 (1907). Hawaiian Is. 



9. P. marginhtrigaia, Walsingham, ibidem, p. 721, pi. 25, f. 26 (1907) Hawaiian Is. 



(inavginestrigata) . 



10. P. lithocolletwa,Z.e\\ei, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. Vol. i3, p.415, pl. 6. f. 147 S. America. 



(1877). 



11. P. quadristrigella, Zeller, ibidem, p. 416, pl. 6, f. 148 (1877). S. America. 



12. P. cupediella, Hei rieh-Schaffer, Schmett Europ. Vol. 5, p. 292, f. 8o3 S. E. Europe. 



( 1 855). 

 i3. P. iiesitis, Walsingham, Proc Zool. Soc. Lond p. 1 53 (1897). W. Indies. 



14. P '. plauUginella, Chambers, The Canad. Entom. Vol. 4, p. 10 (1872) N. America. 

 (planlaginisella). 



geiella, Chambers. Cincinnati Quart. Journ. Sc. Vol. 1. p. 200 \ 1874) 

 erigeronsUa, Chambers, The Canad. Entom. Vol. 9, p. 127 (1877). 

 i5. P. astericola, Frey, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 34. p. 204(1873). N. America. 



16. P. pavoniella, Zeller, Linn. Ent. Vol. 2, p. 362 (1847). C. Europe. 



17. P. nnonidis, Zeller, Isis, p. 209(1839). N. and C. Europe. 

 i.S. P. lespedezifoliella, Clemens, Proc Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. p. 210 (i860) N. America. 



(lisped ezaefoliella ) . 



mirabilis, Frey. Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 34, p. 2o3 11873). 



19. P. robinidla, Clemens. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 2, p. 4 (i863). X. America. 



20. P. therinopsilla, Chambers, Cincinnati Quart. Journ. Sc. Vol. 2, p. 3oo N. America. 



(1875). 



21. P. bosquella, Chambers, The Canad. Entom. Vol. 8, p. 33 (1S76). N. America. 

 j.2. P. peiinsylvaniella, Engel, Ent. News, Philad. Vol. 18, p. 478 (1907). N. America. 

 23. P. undosa, Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. i53 (1897). W. Indies. 



1) Parectopa picrog ossa, nov. sp. — Q,7ram. Head whitish somewhal mixed with grey. Palpi whitish, terminal joint with dark 

 grey median band. Thorax grey mixed with whitish. Abdomen grey. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate: dark grey; basal area suffusedly 

 strigulated withwhite; four pairs of rather oblique white streaks from costa, reaching half across wing; dorsal half of wing indistinctly strigulated with 

 white, with a stronger while streak opposite first costal pair, a small triangular white spot beyond middle, and another before tornus; a blackish apical 

 dot edged with white anteriorly : cilia whitish-grey, with two blackish lines diverging beneath. Hindwings and cilia grey. Maskeliya (Pole); in January. 

 one specimen. 



