Moths . line, and a line through the cilia brown. Larva. Uniform dark purplish brown; a few fine colourlessbristles scattered over the body; a well-marked lateral fold ; eachsegment with one or more deep transverse furrows. Inhabits wart-like excrescences in the stem and branches of Trema orientalis,forming galleries in the diseased wood, and pupating in slightwhitish cocoons. It is uncertain if the larvae are the primarycause of the excrescences, but the galleries, after being deserted bythe moths, usually contain colonies of the mealy bug Dactylopiusadonidum, and these in their turn attract
Moths . line, and a line through the cilia brown. Larva. Uniform dark purplish brown; a few fine colourlessbristles scattered over the body; a well-marked lateral fold ; eachsegment with one or more deep transverse furrows. Inhabits wart-like excrescences in the stem and branches of Trema orientalis,forming galleries in the diseased wood, and pupating in slightwhitish cocoons. It is uncertain if the larvae are the primarycause of the excrescences, but the galleries, after being deserted bythe moths, usually contain colonies of the mealy bug Dactylopiusadonidum, and these in their turn attract a species of ant whichbuilds a covering over them, the foundation of large nests whichgradually increase in size and obstruct the growth of the tree( Green). Hah. Naga Hills (Dolierty); Pundaloya, Ceylon (Green). millim. Type in B. M. 4330. Heterographis rubripictella, n. sp. 2 . Head white; thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen white,with an ochreous tinge on dorsum. Fore wring brownish ochreous,. 70 PYEALID^. with a white costal fascia widening on disk and not reaching theapex; diffused pink fascia? along median nervure and vein 1; anoutwardly oblique antemedial white line, a discocellular spot, andinwardly oblique postmedial line; the margin pink; cilia wing pale tinged with fuscous. Hab. Meean Meer, Punjab {Harford). Exp. 14 millim. Typein B. M. 4331. Heterographis suboblitella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 29; id. Mon. Phyc. pi. xxx, fig. 11; C. 8? S. no. 4604, <S . Grey. Fore wing suffused with ochreous below cell and onouter area ; ante- and postmedial whitish lines bordered by blackat middle, the former interrupted and preceded by a broad ochreousband becoming blackish on inner area, the latter very sinuous andexcurved at middle; a dark spot at lower angle of cell. Hind wingsemihyaline yellowish grey. Hab. S. India. Exp. 17 millim. B. Fore iving with veins 4, 5 Fore wing with vein 10 present. 4332. Heterographis micralis, n. sp. <S. Head and co
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