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open. They superficially resemble Tineids, but are brightly coloured 
and are not crepuscular. The long hindlegs are held up in a striking 
manner when the little insect is at rest and one may commonly see the 
moths coupling on the top leaves of a plant. There are four Indian 
species mentioned by Hampson, of which two are common in the 
plains. (Edematopoda clerodendronella, S taint., has the forewing red, 
the hindwing orange. The larva feeds on Clerodendron, of which 
several species are common in waste lands, webbing together the top 
leaves. (See Stainton, Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 1856, p. 125.) It has 
been reared on Clerodendron infortunatum and Anisomeles ovata; the 
larva is brownish, with few short hairs and webs up the top of the 
shoot; it pupates in a thin silk cocoon in the bunch of leaves, the 
moth emerging inside the cocoon. It is found in the hot weather and 
rains in the plains. 0. cypris, Meyr., was reared from a colony of lac, 
(Tachardia albizzice) in Ceylon (Green). Eretmocera impactella, Wlk., 
is far more common ; the forewing, thorax and legs are metallic blue 
with yellow spots, the abdomen yellow with a dark band. Stathmopoda 
(iEoloscelis) theoris, Meyr., was reared from dark coloured slender larvae 
found feeding in sunflower heads; the larva has a black head and 
prothoracic shield, the body naked, black, with five pairs of prolegs ; 
the sunflower seeds do not appear to be eaten, but the dried remains of 
the flowers. Pupation took place in the head between the seeds. The 
moth is a slender insect, with narrow yellowish wings, the apical two- 
thirds brown. 
Chlidanotince. —A small number of species known as yet only from 
Ceylon. 
Gracilariince. —This sub-family has recently been listed by Meyrick 
(Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XVIII, No. 4), with 41 species recorded 
from India. Lithocolletis triarcha , Meyr., has been reared from larvae 
mining the leaves of tree-cottons in the plains. The larva is flattened 
but has legs and five pairs of suckerfeet; the mine is visible on the lower 
surface of the leaf and the pupa is found in it. The moth is very small, 
with brown forewings bearing three oblique silvery bands. L. bauhinice, 
Stn., was bred in Calcutta by Atkinson, who describes the larva as mining 
the leaf of Bauhinia purpurea (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1856, p. 301. 
Acrocercops (Conopomorpha) tricyma , Meyr., is a tiny white and brown 
moth, whose larva mines the leaf of Kakaronda (Blumea balsamifera ), 
