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 l^'u^'^^v-? ijl^j t. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER ^7 also been reared in Southern India by Y. Raniachandia Eao from larvae found feeding on Lantana at Kallar (Nilgiris) and Sidapur (Coorg). HOMONA MENCIANA, WLK. Pandemis menciana, Wlk., Cat., XXVIII, 310 (1863) ('). Godana simuland, Wlk., Cat., XXXV, 1801 (1866) (2). ^W^f-^tTTpw^fe^mtM^tteHrr^^^ Eixt., XLIV, 68-e97-tT-5^^V«41^^H-(3)ri^ f-^ ^ ; ^ ^5^?=^' Ccuma menciana, Wlsnv, A. M. N. H. (7) V, 482-483 (1900) (*). .., , Homona menciana, Meyr., T. E. &'., 1910, 432 (5);SU<^-^1'-^-tiL ^^ "^^-j !i (>i7-(p3^fAf^^,i5ioj ,^^ ^ Originally described from Shanghai, H. menciana has smce been recorded - '^^ from Japan, China, India, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Tinnir, Batian, and the '^^^^^^'^(^^■'^^^ , ^ Moluccas. In India it has been found at Cherrapunji('*), in the Naga Hills(^) ^^.T^ , and in Sikkim(^), and we have it from Shillong and Darjiling and also from Southern India. Homona menciana has been bred in Southern India by Y. Kamachandra Rao from larvae folding tips of branches of Lantana camara at Kallar and webbing flowers and leaves on tip of a LaiUana branch at Sidapur, Coorg. The Kallar larva, when about to pupate, was described as 12 mm. long, cylindrical, rather stout, pale greenish to pale yellowish, posterior extremity rather dark green ; head shiny black ; prothoracic shield rather lighter than head with a conspicuous narrow pale anterior margin ; shields on body rather large, circular, shiny, bearing rather long, slender hairs ; legs and prolegs normal. It pupated on 3rd January and a female m.oth emerged on 10th January 1917. The Sidapur larva was described as 19 nm. long, cylindrical, slightly flattened, brownish-green, with sparse grey ish-greeli hairs ; head small, flat- tened, reddish yelloAv, prothoracic shield greenish brown with a dark brown marginal line laterally and posteriorly but not anteriorly. It pupated on 18th May and the moth emerged on 25th May 1917. Pupa (from Kallar larva) 12 mm. long and 3-5 mm. broad, reddish or yellowish brown, cylindrical, rather stout, blunted anteriorly, wing-sheaths barely reaching middle of dorsal surface of fouith abdominal segm.ent, anal segment produced into a long bhmt chitinized projection. Abdominal seg- ments with three transverse dorsal lidges, first plain and sharply excised posteriorly, second composed of a row of strongly developed spines, third composed of a row of nuirerous smaller spines (which, however, are not bo small or so numerous as in Lobesiu). (Y. Eamachandra Rao's Lantana Cage- slip 33 and un-numbered slip dated 13th May 1917.)