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A major pest of pomegranate, the fruit being bored by the larva,, 

 which also occasionally attacks guava, orange and other fruit'. Our 

 records include the following localities and foodplants : — ■ 



Coimbatorc .... Pomegranate, wood-apple, orange. 



Bangalore .... Apple (boring in fruit). 



Surat ..... Pomegranate. 



Puaa ..... Pomegranate, guava fruit, plums (alu bo- 



khara) {Primus communis), peach fruit. 



Nagpur ..... Orange, dekamali fruit {Gardenia gummi- 



fera. 



Also attacks tamarind fruits and Bell gives fruits of Gardenia and 

 Randia and Strychnos nux-vomica . 

 jUj._ (gg^ In Bengal it is a very common pest of pomegranate. The cater- 



pillars are found on guava also, but in very small numbers. 



Hesperiad^. 



Parata alexis, Fb. 



Lep. Indica IX, 253-255, t. 752, ff. 3, 3a-d. 



iflr. Fletcher. Widely distributed in the Plains. 



Has been reared at Coimbatore and Chepauk from larvge on leaves 

 of Pongamia glat^ra and also on castor and at Nagpur from larvae oa 

 " Kanji." 



Not known to be a pe-t. 



Spialia galba, Fb. 



Lep.. Indica X, 99-101, t. 781, ff. 1, la-c. 



Widely distributed throughout the Plains. 



Has been reared at Pusa from larvae on Sida rhombifolia, on hollyhock 

 leaves, and on soybean {Glycine hispida). Davidson, Bell and Aitken. 

 bred it fiom Waltheria indica. 



Not a pest. 



Ampittia d'oscorides, Fb. 



Hesperla dioscorides, Fb., Ent. Syst. Ill, 329, (1793); Swmh., 

 Lep. Indica X, 125-126, t. 780, ff. 1, \a-d [Ampittia] ; Proc. 

 Second Entl. Meeting, p. 164. 



Eesperia maro, Fb., Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 432, (1798). 



Occurs in Sikkim, Burma, South India and Ceylon. 

 It was reared by Davidson, Bell and Aitken from larvae on rice and 

 grasses and has been reared on paddy at Coimbatore and Samalkota,- 

 Probably a veiy minor pest of rice. 



