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LEPIDOPTISKA. 
Lygropia includes several orange moths with dull markings common 
throughout India. L. quaternalis, Zell,, has been reared from bariar 
(Sida rhombi folia). Agathodes ostentalis, Hubn., is a pretty pale green¬ 
ish moth with a pink fascia on the forewing, whose larva has been found 
feeding on the Pangra tree (Erythrina indica ) in Calcutta. (Indian 
Mus. Notes, Yol. Y, p. 129.) 
Amongst the largest genera is Glyphodes, with a considerable num¬ 
ber of species found in the plains. The larvae are leaf-rollers, living in 
twisted leaves and feeding on neighbouring portions outside. They are 
commonly light green or the semi-transparent greenish colour of so many 
leaf-rolling pyralid caterpillars. Any of the following thirteen species 
are likely to be found and their identification is possible only by careful 
comparison with accurate descriptions. G. vertumnalis, Guen., G. glau- 
culalis, Guen., G. psittacalis, Hubn., and6r. pomonalis, Guen., are green; 
the first is common on the leaves of the white flowering, Taberncemontana 
coronaria in gardens (Plate XXVIII, fig. 7). G. unionalis, Hubn., is 
white with a brown costal fascia and feeds on the flowers of Jasminum 
sarnbac; G. laticostalis , Guen., is similar, the costal fascia cupreous, the 
male antennae dilated and twisted at the base ; G. nigropunctalis, Bren., 
is white with a broader brown costal fascia and some black spots on the 
forewing. G. indica, Saund., is very widely spread, the forewing white 
and black, the male with a conspicuous tuft of long scales. The larva 
is common on Cucurbitaceous plants. G. bicolor, Swains., is black-brown, 
conspicuously marked with white, as also is G. bivitralis, Guen., in which 
the ground colour of the forewing is chestnut, the marks in the form of 
two semihyaline white blotches. G. negatalis, Wlk., is white and fuscous, 
the base of the male antenna dilated and tufted : de Niceville figures the 
moth in Indian Museum Notes (Yol. Y, pi. XY), and he records rearing 
it from Pipal ( Ficus religiosa) and on the fruits of chalta ( Dillenia indica). 
G. celsalis, Wlk., and G. pyloalis, Wlk., are white, brown and fulvous. 
Lepyrodes perspicata, Fabr. ( neptis, Cram.), feeds upon Jasminum 
sarnbac in the plains, the larva rolling the leaves after the usual manner, 
while L. geometralis, Guen., has been reared from a larva found feeding 
upon the flowers of the same plant. Leucinodes orbonalis, Guen., a small 
white moth with dull ferruginous and black markings, is common through¬ 
out the plains, its caterpillar being the borer of the fruit of the wild and 
