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•cence. We have also a specimen from Peradeniya and the species is 

 widely distributed throughout India, from Kashmir to Sikkim and in 

 "Southern India and Ceylon. 



Giaura septica, Swinh. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XI, 283 ; I. I. L., p. 4.50 [Cletthara] ; Proc. 

 Second Entl. Meeting, p. 47. 



Has been reared at Pusa and Surat from larvae on velvet bean and 

 soy bean, of which it is a sporadic minor pest. Also at Pusa from larva 

 on Bntea frondosa flower. Widely distributed throughout India, Bui ma, 

 Ceylon and the Andamans. 



Sekpa celtis, Mo. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XI, 298, f. 105 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 



pp. 218, 229, 246, 264. 

 Plotheia celtis, Hmpsn., F. I., II, 370 ; I. I. L., p. 449, f. 308. 



The Pusa collection contains reared examples from Coimbatore on 

 Odina wodier and from Pusa on litchi leaves, mango leaves and buds, 

 rose leaves, Terminalia catappa leaves and Lorantlius leaves. Other 

 recorded foodplants are Fkut, glomerata and Gmelina arhorea. 



The species occurs throughout India and Burma as a spora'dic pest 

 (f^ometimes serious) of the plants and trees mentioned. 



Plotheia nephelotis, Meyr. MS. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 287. 



A minor pest of brinjal, on which it has been reared in Travancore 

 and at Calicut, Coimbatore, Tiruvallur and Melrosepuram (Madras), 

 Nagpur, Lyallpur and Pusa ; also at Hagari (Bellary District) on a wild 

 f-olanaceous plant. 



The larva attributed to this species by Lefioy {Indian Insect Life, 

 p. 449) is probably the larva of Euhlemyna olivacea. 



Tne specific name nephelotis is an unpublished manuscript name. 



Brinjal Sanothrlpine. 



S. I. I., p. .383, f. 246. 



Has been reared at Coimbatore and in Malabar on brinjal and at 

 Hagari on Solanum xanthocarpum. This is probably the same as the 

 preceding. 



