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 T, BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 29 PTERQPHORUS LIENIGIANUS, ZELL. Pterophorus lienigianus, Zsllor, Linn. Ent., VI, 380 (1852)(i) ; South Entom., XV, 105, t. 2 f. 3(-^); Moyr., Handb., p. 439f ), T. E. S., 1907, 497(1908) (^) ; Fletcher, Spol. Zeylan, VI, 34-35 (1909)(^), S. Ind. Ins., p. 445, f. 322 (1914)(^^), Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 288 (1917)^). Leioptilus seriniihanus, Maore, Lep. Ceylon, III, 527, t. 209 f. 14(^). This specjjSSr^eiidnally described from Central Eiirope('), occurs through- out India, VBurmaJand Ceylon. We have specimens from Anura- dhapura, Coimbatore, Godavari District, Peshawar, Pusa, Shillong, and Maymyo. In Europe the larva has been recorded as feeding o'n. the terminal leaves of Artemisia vulgaris and has been described as " pale bluish-green ; dorsal line broad, darker ; sub -dorsal yellow-whitish ; head brown, blackish- marked " (3). In India the larva feeds on brinjal (Solanum melongena) and has been described as " about 8 to 10 mm. long, moderately stout, hairy, very pale yellowish, head brown "C'), It has also been reared at Pusa from larvae found on 26th March 1917 rolling and feeding on leaves of an unidentified weed locally called khagra (Pusa Insectary Cage-slip 1538). PTEROPHORtTS MONODACTYLUS, LINN Alucita monodactyla, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. X) I, 542 (1758)(^). Pterophorus pterodactylus, Backler, Larvse Brit. Butt, Moths, p. 365] (1901)(2). TMs species is very widely distributed throughout Europe and North America, and occurs in the North-West Frontier Province and in Kashmir. We have specimens from Parachinar (Kurram Valley). The larva feeds on various species of Convolvulus, Chenopodium and Atriplex and has been described by Porritt(2) as about 15 mm. in length and stout in proportion, head polished and rather small, body uniform and cylin- drical, tapering a little posteriorly, segmental divisions well defined and deeply cut ventrally, each tubercle emitting a taft of short but rather strong hairs ; ground-colour bright yellowish-green, more decidedly green dorsally ; head pale yellow, mandibles light brown ; dorsal stripe narrow but distinct, yellowish white ; a much broader yellowish-white spiracular stripe, the space between this and spiracles freckled with streaks and spots of the same colour ; spiracles black, hairs^greyish ; ventral surface, legs and prolegs uniformly pale green. 3