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LEElDOfTERA. 
headed caterpillar stripping the leaves. Procometis (Hyostola) trochala. 
Meyr., is a very large moth for a Tineid, of the colour and form of a 
Galleriid moth, reared from larvae found feeding upon the dry fallen 
leaves of sugarcane. The larva fixes two leaves together with silk and 
lives within, moving gradually along and placing cross threads as it 
goes, so that its excrement is caught in the threads and the path of 
the larva can be traced for over a foot between the leaves. It feeds 
on the dry leaf and pupates between the webbed leaves. 
CEcophorince. —Six Indian species are described. This sub-family 
is notable for including a species commonly found upon lac in India, 
Hypatima (Blastobasis) pulverea, Meyr., having been reared from Bengal 
lac and occurring as a serious enemy to this valuable crop, with the various 
species of Eublemma. The larva feeds not only in the insect on the tree 
but in the dry shellac on the cut stick and it is necessary to fumigate 
the rains crop of lac to free it of the caterpillars, unless it is immediately 
scraped and manufactured. (See Agric. Journ. India, 111, No. 2.) 
Stenomince. —Four species of Agriophora are recorded by Meyrick, 
of which Agriophora rhombota, Meyr., is injurious to the tea plant. (An- 
tram). 
Copromorphince .—This includes two species of Copromorpha de¬ 
scribed by Meyrick from Assam. 
Elachistince. —Less than twenty species of these small moths are 
recorded from India. Laverna mimosce , St., is one of Atkinson’s finds 
in Calcutta, the larva feeding on the seeds of Mimosa (? Acacia) ardbica. 
Stagmatophora promacha, Meyr., was reared from a leaf mining larva 
found in Phaseolus mungo / the orange larva pupates in a thin cocoon 
of white silk. Stagmatophora coriacella, Meyr., is a tiny red-brown moth, 
which can be bred in abundance from dry cotton seeds left too long on 
the plant. The caterpillar is red, not unlike that of Gelechia gossypiella, 
only smaller and deeper coloured, and it is not found in the green boll 
or in unripe seed, as is this latter, and so is not destructive. We have 
reared this from cotton seed from many parts of India, and I. H. Burkill 
sent it in from Amherst, Burma. 
The Tincegeriidce of the Fauna of India, Vol. I, are included by 
Meyrick in Elachistince . These small moths are among the abundant 
insects of the plains, seen flying by day or sitting upon plants in the 
