3?4 



SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



Full-grown larva 40 — 50 mm. long, with transverse reddish hands 

 across the back only reaching half way down the sides, these hands 

 being almost completely overlaid by broad transverse black bars 



Fig. 247. — Eligma narcissus. (Original.) 



which include large raised smooth black warts from which are emit- 

 ted single long slender hairs about 15 mm. long; head yellowish 

 with a small black triangular mark above the mouth and large 

 black eye-like spots. Pupa moderately slender, red-brown, 

 spiracles more or less surrounded with blackish, in a long narrow 

 boat shaped cocoon formed on the trunk of the tree on which the 

 larva has fed ; the cocoon harmonizes wonderfully well with the 

 colour of its environment. Frequently numbers of larvae pupate 

 alongside one another. 





Fig. 248. — Eligma narcissus, larva. 1 1 



Foodplants. — Ailanthus excelsa. 



Status. May at times defoliate Ailanthus when grown as an 

 ornamental shrub. 



rol. Spraying with Lead Arsenate, hand-picking of larvae. 



E \KI \S [NSULANA, Boisd. 

 Tortrix insulana, Boisd, Faun. Mad. Maur., p. 121. t. 16, f. 9(1833). 

 Earias insulana, Hmpsn., Faun. tnd. Moths. II, 133, f. 88, Cat. 

 Phal., XI, 502-503; Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Pests pp. 89-93, Ent. Mem. 

 Agri. Dept., Ind.. I, 184, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 456, t. 38, ((. 1—6. 

 SEE PLATE XX 11. 

 Distribution. — Throughout the Plains of Southern India all the 

 1 Mind. 



