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been found.” It is also observed that plantations of a closely allied 
cedar are similarly attacked in Trinidad. 
In reply to a request from the Director of Forests, Brisbane, Australia, 
in 1917, the writer supplied an account of the life-history of Hypsipyla 
robusta with the methods of control which had been found successful 
in the Dehra Dun district. This information was published in the 
Australian Forestry Journal for January 1918, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 33. 
SYSTEMATIC POSITION. 
Hypsipyla is classed in the subfamily Phycitince of the family Pyra- 
lidae, order Lepidoptera, and is placed by Hampson between the 
genera Myelois and Phycita. 
The subfamily Phycitince contains numerous genera which are of 
economic importance in connection with agricultural crops, fruit and 
forest trees in various parts of the world ; the species exhibit a great 
diversity of feeding habits. Species of Ephestia feed in stored rice and 
wheat flour; Heterographis bores in fruits ; some species of Euzophera bore 
in seeds and fruits, and others are bark-borers ; species of Phycita are 
seed and shoot-borers, leaf-rollers, and general rubbish feeders ; Dioryc- 
tria includes shoot and bark-borers, and Etiella pod-borers. 
Two other species of Hypsipyla are recorded from India, but their 
habits are unknown. 
SYNONOMY OF THE SPECIES. 
Hypsipyla robusta, Moore, (1886) 
Magiria robusta . . Moore, (1886) Lep. Ceyl., III, p. 365, pi. 184 
fig. 4, 4 a. 
Rag., Mon. Phyc., p. 139, pi. VI, fig. 12. 
Cotes and Swinhoe, (1889) Cat. Moths. Ind., 
No. 4598. 
Hypsipyla pagodella . Rag. (1888) Nouv. Gen. et Especes de Phyc., 
p. 10. 
Cotes and Swinhoe, (1889), Cat. Moths Ind., 
No. 4566. 
Hypsipyla robusta . . Hampson (1896), Faun. Brit. Ind., Moths, 
IV, p. 89, No. 4384. 
Kenrick (1907), Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 69. 
The references quoted above do not include those dealing with the 
biology and economic importance of the species ; for the latter see 
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