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Enhlemma dimidialis, Fb. 



PhaJcena dimidialis, Fb., Ent. Syst. Ill, ii, 224 (1794) ; Hmpsn., 



Cat. X, 797 [EubJemma]. 

 Anthophila secfa, Guen., Noct. II, 249 (1852) ; Hmpsn., Cat. 



X, 77, f. 35 [Eublemma]. 

 Micra hemirhoda, Wlk., Cat. XXVIII, 799 (1865) ; Hmpsn., 



F. I., II, 342 [Eiible7)wm] ; Fletcher, Kept. Impl. Entom., 



1917-18, p. 104, t. 20 [EubJemma]. 



We have two specimens labelled " Coimbatore ; on cholam " and Mr. Fletclier. 

 one from Travancore labelled " on cowpea,'' but it is not apparent 

 that these examples were bred. Specimens from Paliir, S. Arcot, were 

 noted as " flying in numbers in the groundnut fields " on 24th April 

 1907. The moth is common at Pusa and has been bred from larvae 

 eating mimg flowers. We have it also from Gauhati, 



Eublemma olivacea, Wlk. 



S. I. L, pp. 380-381, f. 241 ; Froe. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 287 (tab.). 



Occurs .throughout India as a pest of brinjal. Our specimens are 

 from Pusa and Dharwar, and I have seen it from Lyallpur. It is usually 

 a minor pest, occasionally very destructive. The larva rolls brinjal 

 leaves ; it does not " bore in the green shoots " as stated {Indian, Insect 

 Life, p. 451) by Lefroy, who has apparently described the larva of this 

 species under the name PJotheia nephelotis (/. c, p. 449). 



Eublemma silicula, Swinh. 



Swinhoe, A. M. N. H. (6) XIX, 167 (1897) ; Hmpsn., Cat. X, 

 128-129, t. 152, f. 19 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 222. 



Reared at Pusa from larvee in flowers of Nyctanthes arbortristis and 



from mango buds and inflorescence, from castor fiuit and from larvae 



eating grains in hajra heads, at Nagpu ■ from mango flowers and from 



larvae in juar heads, and at Coimba*^ore from larvoe in choJam earheads. 



It is found also on Lantana camara. Mr. Ramacbaudra 



Rao, 



Cretonia vegeta, Swinh. 



Hmpsn., F. I., II, 325, f. 175 [Swinhoa], Cat. X, 388-389, f. 123. 



Widely distributed throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. Has Mc, fletclier. 

 been reared at Pusa from a larva found on rice leaves, but is not 

 known to be a pest. 



