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SOME SOUTH [\I)I.\\ INSECTS, ETC. 



Distribution. Throughout the Plains of Southern India. 



Lifehistory. The larva is pale-greenish with indistinct pale 

 yellowish- white bars across tin- hack and a whitish line along the 

 side ; it lives in rolled up lea\ es oi various grasses. The translucent 

 pale-greenish pupa is formed on .1 blade of the foodplant, attached 

 by the tail and a girdle. 



Food plants.— Grasses of various kinds, especially paddy, and 

 more occasionally cholam, etc. 



Status. — A minor pest as a rule. 



Control. — ? 



Remarks. The nuihbers of this butterfly are usually kept in 

 check by numerous parasites and predators. 



PARNAR \ ( 1 >l. \< \. Moore. 



Hesperia colaca, Moore. P.Z.S. I [877), 504. t. 58, f. 7. 

 Parnara colaca, Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 431. f. 2Q6. 



1 ig. !92. — Parnara colaca. 1 hows the natural size. 



< 1 mala 



Distribution. — Chingleput (Saidapet and Madras). 

 Lifehistory. Not known in detail. 

 Foodplant. Paddy. 

 Stains. Scarcely a pest. 



SUASTUS GREMIUS, Fb. 

 Hesperia gremius, Fab., Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 433 ( 1 798). 

 Suastus gremius, Lefroy, bid. Ins. Life, p. 431 ; Kershaw, Butt. 



Hongkong, p. 123. t. 14. f. 25. t. 7.1. I. 11 ; W'illcv. Spol. ZeyL VI, 

 123 130. lit;-. (1Q09). 



Distribution.— Bangalore, Godavari, Coimbatore. In July and 

 August. (Probably throughout palm-growing districts all the year 

 round.) 



