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Green from pods of sword-bean {Canacalia ensijormis) at Peradeniya 

 in July 1903. 



Plvjcita infusella, Meyr. 



S. I. I., pp. 428-429, t. 31 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 100, 125, 126. 



Probably occurs throughout the Plains of India. The Pusa Collec- 

 tion contains examples bred at Pusa, Surat and Lyallpur on cotton 

 and at Pusa on top-shoots of Malvastrum tricrepidatum. Also reared in 

 Madras on Hibiscus spp. 



A minor pest of cotton, the larvae sometimes doing appreciable 

 damage to young shoots, especially in the Surat District. 



The affected shoots should be picked ofi and destroyed. 



At Surat we find it every year as a serious pest. Mr. jhaveri. 



At Pusa it is controlled by an unidentified parasite. Mr. Misra. 



PJiycita clienfella, Z. 

 Hmpsn., F. L, IV, 94 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 288. 



Recorded from Calcutta, Bombay and Ceylon. We have specimens Mr. Fletcher, 

 reared at Pusa and Hagari (Bellary District) from castor fruits and at 

 Pusa from larvae rolhng brinjal leaves. 



Scarcely a pest. 



Rhodophcea heriyigi. Rag. 



Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 99, f. 58. 



Recorded from the Nilgiris and Ceylon, in which island the larva has 

 been found destructive to fohage of ErythrGxylon coca at Matale. We have 

 specimens from Gammaduwa, Ceylon. 



Cryptohlahes ephestialis, Hmpsn. 



Hmpsn., B. J. XV, 32. 



Originally described from Matale in Ceylon. It has also been bred 

 by Green from larvae in fruit-capsules of castor at Peradeniya and is 

 likely to be found under similar circumstances in India. 



