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and Guar bean ( Cyamopsis psoralioides). The larva is green, smooth 
and nearly hairless, with small lateral black spots, and black head and 
prothoracic shield. It webs together two top leaves and lives within, 
eating holes in the neighbouring leaves. It is a common insect in the 
rains. Y. evidantis , Meyr., has a similar larva that lives on the buds and 
leaves of sissu (Dalbergia sissu), webbing the leaves together. Pupation 
takes place either between two leaflets or in the bark of the tree. The 
pupae were also found in the bark of babul (Acacia arabica) , but it is not 
known that the larva feeds on this plant. 
Anarsia ephippias , Meyr., has a similar life-history and feeds on 
groundnut (Arachis hypogea). It has been found only in the rains and 
may have wild foodplants, probably Leguminosce . It is figured in all 
stages in Plate LVI. Anarsia melanoplecta, Meyr., was described from 
a single specimen reared from a larva that bores down the green shoot 
of mango; its tunnel extends along the centre of the shoots till it 
reaches the limit of the new soft growth. It then pupates, after prepar¬ 
ing an emergence hole, in a cocoon of silk and frass. 
Anacampsis nerteria , Meyr., is the groundnut pest of Ceylon and 
South India, found also in the Sundarbans. The forewing is narrower, 
more bronzy in colour, with a light costal mark near the apex. The pest 
has been studied by Green in Ceylon who comments on the resemblance 
of the egg in miniature, to the groundnut itself. This insect is a serious 
pest, not yet known in Northern India, but likely to spread there. The 
larva is leaf mining and comes out to pupate in webbing between the two 
sides of a leaflet. It breeds also in Psoralea corylifolia. 
Gelechia gossypiella , Saund., was described by Saunders in 1843 
from specimens sent from Broach, The larva is the notorious pink 
bollworm of India, Ceylon, Burmah, Straits Settlements and East 
Africa, whose life-history is discussed in Indian Insect Pests and the 
Agricultural Journal of India (Yol. I, No. 1). The larva bores into 
cotton bolls and feeds upon the oily seeds. 
Gelechia tamaricella, Zell., is an European species bred from Jhau 
(Tamarix gallica) in Behar. The larva webs together several twigs, 
living inside this shelter and feeding on the dry leaves. Gnorimoschema 
heliopa, Low., is another widespread insect, whose larva bores in the 
stems of tobacco and other solanaceous plants. It is a widespread pest 
