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in India, the larva causing swellings of the stems of young tobacco plants. 
The moth lays a single egg on the leaf stalk, the emerging larva boring 
down through the leaf stalk to the stem in which it lives. Pupation 
takes place inside the stem, the full grown larva preparing an exit hole 
through which the moth can escape. An account will be found in the 
Agricultural Journal of India, Yol. Ill, No. 1. Binsitta niviferana, Wlk., 
is a remarkable species of comparatively large size with very large up- 
curved palpi, the forewings snow-white with dark-markings, the hind- 
wings yellow. The larva is a borer in the twigs of simul ( Bornbax mala- 
baricum), entering at the leaf-axil and tunnelling in the centre of the 
shoot: it is a profuse producer of silk ; there are five pairs of forelegs 
and little adaptation to the boring life. When full-fed the pupa 
emerges, spins a pad of silk and pupates openly on the branch or leaf ; 
it is firmly attached by the many hooks of the cremaster and closely 
resembles a Lycsenid pupa ; there is no girdle but in shape it is like 
a Lycsenid pupa and is quite naked and roughened. The moth 
rests by day openly on leaves and very closely mimics a bird’s excre¬ 
ment. This remarkable insect is not uncommon in the plains, the larvse 
being found in July. Bingham figures a pupa and imago of B. barrowi , 
Bingh., found on the same tree at Maymyo. (Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 
1907, p. 177.) Phthorimcea operculella, Zell. (Lita solanella), is the 
destructive potato moth of the Mediterranean, United States, America 
and India. The life-history is shown on Plate LVII. It is almost 
certainly an importation to India with seed potatoes and has spread 
over Bombay, the Nilgiris, the Central Provinces and as far East as 
Patna. The larva mines in the leaves of the growing plant or bores in 
the tubers and the pest attacks both the growing plant and the stored 
tubers, being thus extremely destructive as the seed-potatoes kept 
from one season to another are destroyed. Epithectis studiosa, Meyr., 
feeds as a larva in dried herbarium plants in Ceylon (Meyrick). 
Sitotroga cerealella , 01., is recorded from Kulu, as attacking maize 
cobs. It is widespread in India attacking stored cereals, rice 
especially. 
Xgloryctince. —Thirty-one Indian species have besn recorded by Mey¬ 
rick, mainly from the hills. Antram has reared Metathrinca simbleuta , 
Meyr., from branches of tea (Meyrick). Nephantis serinopa, Meyr., has 
proved a serious pest to palms in Ceylon and South India, the black- 
