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 T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 39 spineless medially recurved ridge is rather characteristic of the pupa of this species. (Y. Ramachandra Rao's Lantana Cage-slip 5.) ' This species has also been reared at Pusa from larvse sent from Solan in January 1916, as.,attacking orange leaves. A single larva was found at Pusa on 7th January 1917, in a rolled-up top of a lucerne plant, some of the top leaves being cut and dried and rolled up together. The moth emerged on 15th February. (Pusa Insectary Cage- slip 1914.). CACCECIA PENSILIS, MEYR. MS. E^it. Kxca. ¥ /il^ ,-<>40 lOc/T. 'jt*J A single specimen was reared from a larva found boring into an orange fruit at the base of the stem ; the fruit was purchased in Madras City, but was probably brought from some other locality in Southern India. CACCECIA COMPACTA, MEYR. Cacoecia comjpacta, Meyr., Exot. Micr., II, 164-165 (1918)(i). Bred at Pusa in February-March 1916, from larvse found webbing up '^^^^ ' «"-^ -^ Salix leaves and feeding under cover of the webbing on the epidermis and ^""^-^^ icj.viti.i mesophyll tissue of the leaves. The larvse were collected on 29th February, f— - ^■^ ^ when they were about half -grown and pupated between 21st and 27th March, 'U-U^. -l ^- f '?. the moths emerging from 26th March to 6th April 1916. Pupation took place (Xir-j^U Tec within folded leaves, in a slight cocoon form.ed of white silken threads. The half -grown larva is about 10 mm. long and 1 mm. broad, cylindrical, dull green with scattered short pale-greenish hairs, head shiny yellowish- brown, prothoracic shield black and strongly chitinized. The full-grown larva is about 20 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, head pale brown, otherwise as above. The pupa is about 10 mm. long and 2*5 mm. broad across the thoracic region, cylindrical, tapering posteriorly, anal segment produced and terminating in a pair of short aciculate processes, brown, darker dorsally and lighter ventrally with a slight green tinge over ventral thoracic region. (Tahl Ram's Cage-slip 170.) CACCECIA DISPILANA, WLK. Pandemis dispilana, Wlk., XXX, 983 (1864) (i). Cacoecia dispilana, Meyr., Cat. Tortric, p. 18 (1912) (2). Archips mimicus, Wlsm., Swinh. Cat. Het. Oxf. Mus., II, 573 (1900) (3). The larva is recorded(^) by Minchin, from examples found at Ootacamund, as " green, head brown, slightly hairy. Leaf -roller on honey-suckle. Pupa {U^X (iU{v.-L^A,C<>vwr <^ ^;^,T^^ Ar^T.^>^ T}^,3«,, |).9 (^i^t; C*^*--^- ^^-^
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