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Exelastis atomosa, Wlsm. 



S. 1. 1., pp. 444-445, t. 38 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 44, 56. 



Occurs throughout Madras, Bombay, Baroda, the Central Provinces 

 and Bihar. I have not seen any specimens from Northern India, Assam, 

 Burma or Ceylon (previous records from Ceylon probably all refer to 

 E. plihjctoenias, Meyr.). 



An important pest of Cajamis indiciis and Dolichos lahlab, the larva 

 eating the flower- buds and flowers and boring into the pods and devouring 

 the seeds. 



In the Sholapur District control is practised by shaking the plants 

 over baskets and a small proportion of larvae and pupse is collected in 

 this way. 



PteropJwnis lienigianus, Z. 



S. I. I., p. 445, f. 322 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 288. . 



Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. Has been reared 

 on brinjal at Coimbatore and in the Godavari District but is scarcely 

 a pest. We have moths also from Ootacamund, Peshawar, Maymyo, 

 Shillong, and Bankipur, and it has been reared at Pusa on leaves of 

 " Khagra." [" Khagra " is given in Watt's Dictionary as Saccharum 

 sponianeum, but this seems unhkely.] 



PSYCHID.^. 



Maliasena graminivora, Hmpsn. 



Hmpsn., T. E. S., 1895, 286; F. I., IV, 472-473 ; I. M. N., IV, 

 18-19,t.3,ff.la-c. 



~ Originally described from Calcutta as destructive to thatching grass. 

 Occasionally occurs on paddy in some numbers as a minor pest in Bihar, 

 Orissa and Bengal. We have it, reared from larvae on Saccharum sponta- 

 neiim, from Pusa and Mukhtapur in North Bihar. 



Mahasena theivora, Ddgn. 



Acanthopsyche (Metisa) theivora, Ddgn., B. J., XVI, 400 fig. 

 Mahasena theivora, Hmpsn., B. J., XX, 96-97. 



Occurs in Sikkim, the larva on tea in a case composed of fragments 

 and whole leaves attached to a rather soft case. Apparently not a 



pest. 



