LEPIDOPTERA. 



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Li/ehistory. The greyish-yellow semi-looping caterpillar feeds 

 exposed on leaf-blades and pupates in a cocoon amongst leaves 

 Foodplants.— Grasses, including paddy. 

 Status.- -An occasional very minor pest of rice. 



AZAZIA RUBRICANS, Bdv. 

 Ophiusa rubticans, Boisd., Faun. Mad. Maur., p. 106. t. 16. I. 1 

 (1833). 



Thermesia rubricans, Hmpsn., Faun. Ind. Moths, II. 534, f. 298; 



Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Lite. p. 455. 



Fig. 254. — Azazia rubricans. (Original.) 



Distribution. -Throughout the Plains ol Southern India. 



Lifehistory- The caterpillar is slender and loops in walking 

 although all prolegs are present ; in colour it isgreen with markings 

 consisting of (1) an ashywhite band between each segment; (2) a 

 few faint narrow lines along the back and (3) a bright yellowish- 

 brown stripe along the side, but any or all of these may be absent. 

 The pupa is formed in a slight cocoon amongsl leaves of the 

 foodplant (usually in wet lands), or just beneath the surface of the 

 soil (in dry areas). Themothhasa great - mblance to a di 



Foodplants — Green-gram, red-gram, cow-pea. black-gram; prob- 

 ably on all pulses. 



Status. — A minor and sporadic pest of pulses. 



Control. — Hand-picking of caterpillars and. where practicable, 

 scraping the surface of the soil with a bullock-hoe to expose the 

 pupae. 



HOMOPTERA GLAUCINANS, Gn. 



Alamis glaucinans, Guen, Noct., III. 6. 



Homoptera glaucinans, Hmpsn., Faun. 1ml. Moths, ||, 475, f. 263. 



Distribution. — Coimbatore. Probably throughout Southern 

 India. 



Lifehistory. Larva elongate, slender. 35 40 mm. long, iir-t two 



pair- of ventral prolegs absent, pale-green in colour with square 



white patches along the back of many of the abdominal segments. 



(NOTE.— Forsayeth figure- it as pale-green with a broad yellow 



stripe along the -ide.) Pupa in a slight cocoon. 



Foodplant. - Sesbania agyptiaca. 



Status.— A minor pest, only once noticed. 



