Margaronia multilinealis (Kenrick)

Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 163-185 : 182

31: Margaronia multilinealis (Kenrick) .

Glyphodes multilinealis Kenrick, Zool. Soc. London, Proc., 83, pl. 4, fig. 173, 1907.

Margaronia multilinealis, Tams, Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 284, 1935.

Moths were reared from Yona , May 12, Machanao , June 30, Orote Peninsula , Sept. 1, Swezey; Piti , at light, Aug. 13, 17, Swezey. One specimen at U. S. National Museum and one at Bishop Museum , Fullaway , 1911.

Described from New Guinea. Recorded also from Samoa and Society Islands. In Guam we reared it from leafroller caterpillars on a species of Ficus with narrow leaves. The young terminal leaves were rolled and fastened together, and the caterpillar fed within. They were sometimes very abundant.