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Telicofa augias, Linn. 



S. I. I., pp. 419-420, f. 294 ; Lep. Indica X, 246-247, t. 813, 

 ff. 2, 2a-c ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 149, 164, 204. 



Common throughout the Plains of India. We have it from Pusa, 

 Cuttack, Palur and Coimbatore, in all cases reared from sugarcane. 



The larva feeds commonly on cane-leaves, and is also said to feed on 

 bamboos and rice rarely, but is scarcely a pest. 



Calforis colaca, Mo. 



S. I. I., p. 413, f. 292, [Pamara] ; Lep. Indica 316-317, t. 831^ 

 ff. 1, la-c ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 164. 



Common throughout the Plains. Our specimens are from Pusa 

 (lar\''a on rice), Chingleput (larva on paddy) and Bassein Fort, Bombay 

 (larva on grasses). 



Scarcely a pest of paddy. 



Caltoris bevani, Mo. 



Lep. Indica X, 318 1. 831, ff. 2, 2a-b ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 164. 



Occurs throughout the Plains of India (except South) and Burma. 

 We have examples reared from larvae found on rice leaves at Pusa and 

 Samalkota. 



Not known as a pest. 



Chapra mafhias, Fb. 



S. I. I., pp. 417-418, t. 27 [Pamara] ; Lep. Indica X, 320-321, 

 t. 831, ff. 3, 3a-c ; Entl. Mem. V, 67-72, t. 9 ; Proc. Second 

 Entl. Meeting, pp. 164, 180. 



Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. We have butter- 

 flies from Peshawar, Bassein Fort, Pollibetta, Coimbatore, Ootacamund, 

 the Anamalai Hills, Mandalay, Maymyo, and Mptkyina, as well as 

 examples bred from laivao on rice at Nagpur, Pusa, Daltonganj, Poona 

 and Thana District. It has also been reared at Pusa on juar and once 

 on sann-hemp leaves (collected on sann-herap in field). 



A minor pest of paddy as a rule, and sporadically bad in most districts. 



BIr. Ghosh. X found one caterpillar on a leaf of sann-hemp. 



Mr. Fletcher. Sann-hemp is a very unusual food-plant. Possibly it had wandered 



ofi grass. 



