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Etiella zinckenella, Tr. 



S. I. I., p. 429, i 305; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 44, 

 (tab.); 57, 58, 60, 64, 71. 

 Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, and is a destructive 

 pest of sann-hemp and pulses, the larvae boring in the pods and 

 devouring the seeds. Our records include : — 



Coimbatore 



Hagari 



Virar (Bombay) 



Jalalpur (Bombay) 



Mirpurkhas (Sind) 



Saharanpur 



Pusa 



Bankura . 

 Amarapura (Burma) 



Horse-gram, cow-pea, red-gram and sann- 

 hemp pods. 

 Horse -gram pods. 



Lablab pods. 



Sann-hemp pods. 



Saidi beans. 



Pea -pods. 



Sann-hemp, kulthi, tur, pea, khesari 

 {Lathyrus satlvus), sweet-pea. 



Khesari pods. 



Lablab pods. 



Macalla moncusalis, Wlk. 



S. I. I., pp. 429-430, f. 306 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 218. 



The larva has been found webbing mango leaves and shoots and des- 

 troying the young leaves at Coimbatore, Salem, Madras and Samalkota, 

 also said to occur on sal in the United Provinces. It has been bred 

 at Pusa on Lager sir cemia f.os-regincB and we have it from Nagpur also. 



A minor pest of mango. 



The webs are conspicuous and the enclosed caterpillars easily collected- 

 and destroyed. 



Nymphula flvctuosalis, Z. 



Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 193-194, f. 115 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 165. 



Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, but has apparently 

 only been bred at Taliparamba, Malabar, when it was reared from a 

 pupa found on paddy. 



It is perhaps a pest of paddy, together withA^ depunctalis, but has 

 not been definitely recorded. 



Nyni'phula depunctalis, Guen. 

 S. I. I., pp. 430-431, t. 32 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 164. 



Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, usually as a minor 

 pest of paddy, sometimes serious. Said to have been bred in the 

 Central Provinces from larva on leaves of garari {Lehidiero^ms 

 mbicularis). 



