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Euteliince. —A single genus, Eutelia, is common in our limits with 
four species, E. delatrix, Guen.; E. jocosatrix , Guen. ; E. nugatrix, Guen. ; 
E. favillatrix, Wlk. 
Stictopterince.—Risoba ohstructa , Mo., feeds on Quisqualis indica 
and is common in the plains. Odontodes aleuca, Guen., is a deep brown 
moth, with black stipples and a crenulate margin to the forewing, found 
generally in the plains. 
Sarrothripince. —The wings are commonly narrowed at the base, of 
even width otherwise, with patches of raised scales on them. The palpi 
Fig. 308— Plotheia celtis larva, cocoon and 
PELLETS, COCOON, IMAGO. (I. M. N.) 
are porrect or upturned. Plotheia celtis , Mo., is a small grey brown moth 
with a spiral dark line on the forewing. Its larva feeds on the leaves of 
litchi (Nephelium litchi ) and gular ( Ficus glomerata) ; it is rather sparsely 
clothed with long grey hairs which project over the head and tail and from 
the sides ; a rough silken cocoon is formed on the soil covered with excre¬ 
ment ; the life-history is rapid, less than one month in June. De Niceville 
records it also (Ind. Mus. Notes, Y, p. 108) as feeding on the leaves of 
Terminalia catappa, the country almond, and Gmelina arborea. Another 
species, P. nephelotis, Meyr., has been found feeding on the leaf of 
Brinjal (Solanum melongena) and this appears to be a common plains 
species. The larva is short and thickset, dark coloured with brilliant 
yellow spots and long hairs. It turns the edge of the leaf over and lives 
within. 
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