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LEPIDOPTKRA. 
to be discriminated. The head is often black when young and light- 
coloured later. Pupa with segments 8-11 free, in the male 12 also; 
protruded from the cocoon in emergence, usually in the situation where 
the larva fed.” The protrusion of the pupa is worth note ; in other 
respects the larvse and pupae are much like those of Tineids. The moths 
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fly at dusk and are rarely seen. 
The known Indian species include two destructive insects, the tur- 
leaf Caterpillar ( Eucelis critica, Meyr.,) and the Sann stem borer ( Las- 
peyresia pseudonectis , Meyr.). More are likely to be found and the 
notorious codlin-moth of the apple (Carpocapsa pomonella L.) is 
included in the family. But few Indian species have been described, 
these chiefly in the sub-family Epiblemince. The student will find 
descriptions in Meyrick’s papers in the Bombay Journal. We mention 
such plains species as are known to us, but many remain to be found. 
Of the Epiblemince , over 30 Indian species are recorded, of the 
Tortricince 40, two in Ceracince and one in the Phaloniince. 
Epiblemince. Eucelis critica , Meyr., is a small dusky moth whose 
larva rolls the top leaves of pigeon pea ( Cajanus indicus) in the rains. 
We figure the stages in Plate LV; an account is published in Indian 
Insect Pests, p. 143. 
Eucosma paragramma, Meyr., has been reared from caterpillars bor¬ 
ing in green bamboos ; so few insects attack growing bamboos that it is 
interesting to find a caterpillar boring into so hard an object as a thick 
green bamboo. The larva is brown, with 5 pairs of prolegs, and pupates 
in the tunnel in the bamboo. Laspeyresia jaculatrix, Meyr., is a small 
dusky grey moth found sometimes in abundance flying in shady places. 
The larvae are found in the bark of the sissu tree (Dalbergia sissu) and 
occur there abundantly. Pupation takes place in a fine silken cocoon. 
Apparently these larvae are the hosts of a small Bombyliid fly, which has 
been reared from a batch of larvae in sissu bark ; the food of the larva 
is not known but it probably is the bark of the tree. 
The caterpillars spend the winter in the bark of the tree and have a 
curious habit of coming out at night during a few days in March, crawling 
about on the bark and, soon after daylight, retreating into the bark 
again; immense numbers of them can be seen in the early morning on 
these days and the phenomenon is apparently so regular that the crows 
