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as many as four or five tiny green larvae being found in one mine. The 
pupa is in a silken cocoon in the mine, the moths emerging in April and 
May. A. telestis , Meyr., was reared from a leaf-miner of Pitha ( Trewia 
nudiflora) in Behar and A. phalarotis, Meyr., from a similar leaf-miner 
in Chichira (Achyranthes aspera). A. (Gracilaria) terminalice, Stn., was 
bred by Atkinson from larvae mining the leaves of country almond 
(■Terminalia catappa). This and other Indian species are figured by 
Stainton (Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 1862, p. 291). A. (Gracilaria) 
orientalis, Stn., was described from specimens reared on Bauhinia by 
Atkinson (loc. cit., 1856, p. 301). Gracilaria octopunctata, Meyr., is a 
small dark moth with four yellowish spots on each forewing ; the larva 
rolls the small leaves of sissu (Dalbergia sissu), forming a small mass of 
often dry leaves in which it lives and pupates. The pupa is sometimes 
in a web of very white glistening silk on a leaflet. Gracilaria theivora, 
Wlsm., is a pest to tea in India and Ceylon; the larva mines and rolls 
the leaf. (Ind. Mus. Notes, II, 49.) 
PlutellincB. Over twenty species are recorded from India, largely by 
Meyrick. Simcethis orthogona , Meyr., has been reared on Sahra ( Psoralia 
corylifolia) in Behar; the larva is green with a brown head and a row 
of black tubercles on each side of the body: it feeds on the leaf, 
pupating under a slender white cocoon on the leaf; it is common yearly 
in July. Phycodes radiata, Ochs., is a rather conspicuous moth, common 
in the plains (Plate LII, figs. 7-10). The larva is a leaf-roller, feeding on 
pi pal ( Ficus religiosa) and other wild figs as well as on the cultivated 
fig (Ficus carica). It pupates either on the leaf or, if before winter, on 
the bark, making a stiff oval cocoon, flat and shiny. During winter it 
hibernates as a larva or pupa, moths emerging in April when there is 
another brood. Brenthia buthusalis, Wlk., is a delightful moth with 
broad wings delicately crumpled, which is found sitting on Marigold 
flowers during November and December ; it is comparatively common, 
not easy to capture as it flies with a quick dancing motion when dis¬ 
turbed. Plutella maculipennis , Curt., the Diamond-back moth, is com¬ 
mon on Cruciferous crops during the cold weather, especially in veget¬ 
able gardens. It is an almost cosmopolitan insect and, in India, spends 
the hot weather and rains as a resting imago in shelter. 
Tineince .—About twenty species are recorded from India, a very 
small proportion probably of those occurring there. Leucoptera spheno - 
