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It was bad [at Pusa] on white nettle, but not for the last four years. Mr. Misw. 



There is one peculiarity that we have noticed about this insect in Mr. Kunhi Kannan. 

 Mysore. It lays eggs on the more shady crops first and then moves on 

 to the others. It attacks castor by preference. 



When it occurs in large numbers we find eggs on all sorts of plants Mr. Ghosh, 

 and in all places whether shady or otherwise. 



That may be so in Pusa, but in Mysore we first find it on castor. Mr. Kunhi Kannan. 



Diacrisia monfana, Guer. [suffnsa, Wlk.). 



Hmpsn., Cat. Ill, 302. 



Has been reported (I, M. N. II, 47) as defoliating plantain and (I. M. 

 N., I. 54-55) on jute. Probably an error for D. obliqiia. 



? Diacrisia sp. 



Bred from larvae found feeding on rice-leaves at Ranchi in Septem- 

 ber 1915. 



The moth is a small, stoutly-built, immaculate, ochreous species, 

 which has not yet been identified. 



Estigmene Jactinea, Cram. 



S. I. I., p. 368, f. 230 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 28, 57, 

 96, 101, 187, 189, 199, 291. 



A common and widely-distributed species throughout India (except 

 extreme North) and Lower Burma. Its incidence as a pest appears 

 to vary largely according to locality ; in Baroda, for example, it is stated * 



to be a serious pest every year, whilst in the Central Provinces it is not 

 common. In most districts it seems to be sporadic and scarcely a pest 

 as a rule. 



Piepers and Snellen have described the larva on numerous plants in 

 Java {Tijds. voorEnf. XLVIII, 187-188 (1905)) and figure it (t. 7, ff. 1-3). 

 At Pusa it has been found on sunflower, jute, castor, sann hemp, Abufilon 

 sp., maize, sweet potato and Phaseohis mvngo, and in Southern India on 

 cumbu, ragi, coffee, horse-gram, etc. 



Amsacla lineola, Fb. 



Hmpsn. Cat. Ill, 324-325 ; Hmpsn., F. I., II, 28 {Creatonotm 

 emiftens, Wlk.) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 96. 



Common and widely-distributed throughout India and Burma, the 

 larva occurring on most low-growing crops, especially on Graminese,, 



