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LERIDOPTERA. 
at the upper end for the moth to escape. This species is attacked by 
Hymenopterous parasites. The larva of Opogona chalinota, Meyr., 
feeds in the dry stem of Gurur ( Polypodium quercifolium), reducing 
it to a mass of trass and dust amongst which the full grown larvae 
pupate in white silken cocoons, covered with frass and dust. The 
larvae were found in January, the moths continuing to emerge from the 
1st February to 11th March. Green found the larvae of Opogona chala- 
nitis , Meyr., in the fungus beds of termites in Ceylon. Setomorpha 
tineoides, Wals., is not uncommon in dried tobacco leaves in India, and 
may do a considerable amount of damage if neglected (Plate XXVIII, 
fig. 10). S. rutella, Zell., is recorded as attacking blankets in Calcutta, 
Tinea pachyspila , Meyr., as living in a case on woollens and furs in 
bungalows in Ceylon (Meyrick), and Tinea tapetzella, Linn., was reared 
from wool in Calcutta. (Indian Mus. Notes, III, 5, 66.) Walsingham 
described a species as Ereunetis seminivora , which was bred from pods 
of Cassia occidentalis in Bengal. (Indian Mus. Notes, IV, 107.) 
The moth is dark chocolate brown with a pale ochreous band from 
base to apex of wing ; the position of this species was uncertain 
owing to lack of material and until the species is found again, must 
remain doubtful. Tischeria ptarmica , Meyr., is recorded as mining in 
the leaves of ber (Zizyphus jujuba), at Puri, as many as twenty larvae 
in one leaf (Meyrick, Rec. Ind. Mus., II, 399). 
Dasyses rugosellus, Stn., is recorded as living in wood in India and 
Ceylon. (Indian Mus. Notes, V, 103.) It has been reared from larvae 
found in mango and gular bark, as also in the frass of a Cerambycid 
borer in mango. It pupates in a silken cocoon in the dust or bark, the 
pupa wriggling partly out. Strepsipleura cheradota , Meyr., is a small 
brownish moth reared from larvae found rolling the leaves of the pipal 
(Ficus religiosa). 
Adelince. —One species of Adela and ten of Nemotois from sub-tropical 
India are included herein. 
Collecting. —Every Tineid is worth collecting and pinning at once 
if it be in good condition. The wings need not be set, but those of one side 
at least must be separated from the body and from each other to admit 
of study. The finest silver pins on pith must be used. Besides collect¬ 
ing, much rearing has to be done and every one reared is a gain. Larvae 
are not always easy to find, but chance throws them in the way of a col- 
