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Parallelia algira, Linn. 



Hmpsn., F. I., 11, 500-501, f. 280 [Oj)Musa\, Cat. XII, 596-598, f. 133. 



Occasionally found feeding on castor together with AchcBa Janata. 

 We have a specimen bred from a larva found on castor at Cuttack and 

 it was recorded as defoliating castor at Peradeniya in July 1903 and is 

 likely to occur as a sporadic pest on castor throughout the Plains of 

 India, Burma and Ceylon. 



Grammodes geouie'rica, Fb. 



Hmpsn., F. I., II, 531, f. 296, Cat. XIII, 18-20, f. 4 ; I. I. L., p. 451. 



Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. The larva is stated 

 {Indian Insect Life, p. 451) to feed on rice and we have a specimen from 

 Balaghat (Central Provinces) labelled " on rice," but it is doubtful 

 whether this was actually bred. Stated to feed on grasses at Nagpur. 

 Hampson gives Polygonum j^ersicaria and Cistus salvifolia as the food- 

 plants in Europe. The larva is figured by Hofmann (Raiipen, t. 36, 

 f. 24). 



Grammodes stolida, Fb. 



S. I. I., pp. 387-388, f. 251 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 89. 



Widely distributed throughout India and Burma and is an occasional 

 minor pest of linseed in Madras. 



Chalciope hyppasia, Cr. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XIII, 27-29 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 80, 206. 

 Trigonodes hyppasia, Hmpsn., F. I., II, 527 ; I. I. L., p. 451, f. 311. 



Common throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, but not. known as 

 •a pest except on one occasion when it was found defoliating indigo at 

 Champaran on 1st April 1901 ; the Pusa Collection contains one of these 

 moth^ reared on indigo and the identification is certain. It also feeds 

 on lucerne. 



Pe'.amia Jrugalis, Fb. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XIII, 87-89, f. 23 ; S. I. I., pp. 388-389, f. 253 [Remigia]. 



Occurs abundantly throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. The 

 larva feeds a; a rule on wild grasses but occasionally invade ^ cultivated 

 areas as a minor pest of Graminea). It has been reared at Kannapuram 

 (N. Malabar) on paddy, at Nagpur on juar and grasses, and at Pusa on 

 paddy, sugarcane, Qypzrus rotundus and Phaseolus mungo radiatus. 



In Ceylon it attacks Guinea-grass. Mr. Senior- White. 



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