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SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



folded leaves, sometimes on the surface of the ground. Life-cyc!e 

 about four weeks. 



Foodplants- Sann-hemp, Heliotropium and various low-growing 

 weeds. 



Status. — A serious pest of sann-hemp. 



Control.- Hand-picking of larvae and spraying in small areas. 



Remarks. I be i losely-allied U. pulchelloides will probably be 

 found to occur all round the coasts of Southern India. The larva 

 feeds on Tournefortia argentea and is not known to be a pest. 



AGARIS 111 ).!•;. 

 .KGOCERA VENULIA, Cr. 

 Not litii venulia, Cramer, Pap. Exot.. II, t. 165 D (1777). 

 Mgocera venulia, Hmpsn., Faun. End. Moths.. II, 158, Cat. Pha 

 III, 597. f. 261 ; Lefroy, End. Ins. Life. p. 440, t. 34 f. 5. 



I i .. 234. dBgocera venulia, larva and moth. The smaller outline fi 

 indicate tin- 1 



Distribution. — Throughout the Plains of Southern India. 



Lifehistory. — The full-grown caterpillar is about 45 mm. long > 

 rather stout, especially posteriorly ; the head is reddish-orange, 

 heavilj spotted with black ; the body is smooth except for a few 

 short scattered hairs arising from the warts, pale earthy-brown 

 with numerous scattered short transverse black streaks, irregular 

 both in shape and position but which tend to form black bars 

 the dorsal surface on the anterior half of each segment, on 

 which the dorsal tubercles an- broadly ringed with black ; spira- 

 cle- black, with a supraspiracular tubercle heavily ringed with 

 black and a smaller and less conspicuous postspiracular wai 1 ; on 



