4M SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



TERIAS HECABE, Linn. 

 Papilio hecabe, Linn., Syst. Nat. (el. X). p. 470 (1758). 

 Terias hecabe, Bingham, Faun. Butt., II, 250 — 254, ff. 60 — 62; 

 Swinhoe, Lep. Indica, VII. 50-56, t. 567. 



Fig. 287. — Terias hecabe. (Original.) 



Distribution. — Throughout. 



Lifehistory. — The smooth, white, spindle-shaped egg is attached 

 singly to the upperside of the leaves of the foodplant. Larva 

 rathei slender, pale-green with a white stripe along the side, the 

 skin rather roughened and sparsely covered with short hairs which 

 are probably hollow as minute drops of liquid may be 

 apparently exuded from their tips, so as to give the larva sometimes 

 the appearance of being irrorated with white. Pupa attached by 

 the tail and slung by a girdle from a stem or leaf of the foodplant ; 

 usually pale-green, slender, rather sharplj pointed anteriorly. The 

 caterpillar and pupa are usually difficult to see on their foodplants. 



Foodplants. — Agathi, Daincha and other species of Sesbania and 

 Cassia. 



Status. -Scarcely a pesl as a rule but sometimes strips tin- lca\ es 

 of the foodplants especially in the case of young plants. Occa- 

 sionally a pest of . Ubizsia planted as shade for tea. etc 



Control. Spraying with Lead Arsenate. Lead Chromate, etc., in 

 the ease of localized attacks, young nursery beds, etc. 



LYC/ENID/E. 

 1 ^.TOCHRYSOPS CNEJUS, Fb. [PLATE XXVI.] 



Hesperia cnejus, Fab., Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 430(1798). 



hrysops cnejus, Bingham, Faun. Ind. Butt., II, 415-416; 



Lefroy, lnd. Ins. Life, ].. 42;. t. 32. 



Distribution. Throughout the Plains of Southern India. 



Lifehistory. The rounded highly sculptured egg is laid on flower- 

 buds. The newly-hatched larva bores into the bud, f< eding on the 

 unopened flower and after eating that it attacks another flower or 

 enters a pod where it feeds on the unripe seeds. When full-grown 

 it is about 13 nun. long, flattened, pale-greenish or yellowish, 



