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the segments behind those bearing prolegs the warts arc ringed 

 with reddish-orange instead of black: legs orange-brown, prolegs 

 pale-brownish. (Description from a preserved specimen kindly 

 supplied by Dr. L. C. Coleman.) 



/■I'm iplants. — Trianthema, Baerhavia. 



Status- — Nol a pest. 



Remarks. Fairly common at light. The moth is sometimes seen 

 flying extremely swiftly backwards and forwards over the ground 

 in the evening. 



\< )(! I ID.E. 

 < Ill.uKlDEA OBSOLETA. Fb. 

 Not tit, i obsoleta, Fab., Ent. Syst., III. i. p. 456 (1793). 

 Chloridea armigera, Hmpsn., Faun. Ind.. Moths. 11, 174 17,, f. n-t, 

 Cat. Phal., IV, 45 46, f. 18; Lefroy, Ind. [ns. Pests, pp. 144 [47, ff. 

 161 — 164. Ind. Ins. Life, p. 414, f. 305, t. 28. ff. 2, 3 fas obsoleta]. 



Heliothis obsoleta, Quaintance and Brues, U.S.A. Entom. Bull. 

 No. 50 (1905). 



235. — Chloridea obsoleta, moth and pupa. (From Indian Mu 

 Noti 



Distribution. — Throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory. — The eggs are laid singly on leaves or pods, accord- 

 ing to the foodplant. The full-grown larva is about 35 mm. long, 

 rather slender, with scattered short hairs; colour variable, usually 

 pale apple-green with whitish longitudinal lines and with a darker 

 shade along the side narrowly edged below with whitish; the 

 whole body (except darker side-stripe) sometimes tinged with 

 pinkish, in which case the head may be- yellowish instead of the 

 usual green. Pupa brown, usually in .1 slight cocoon in the soil. 

 When feeding on fruits or seed-pods, the caterpillar bites a hole 

 through the outside and only thrusts its head inside, leaving the 

 body 



Foodplants. — Red-gram, Bengal undnut, tomato, maize 



(cob), tobacco (seed capsul nnabis sativa) (leaves and 



capsules), linseed (capsule-), safllower (capsules), lab-lab (po 

 ami many other low-growing plants. 



