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SOME S( >l I II INDIAN [NS1 



Lifehistory. Thegreenish larva folds the leaves of the foodplant 



into tubular cells in which it lives and pupates. 



Foodplants. Sugarcane. Also said to feed on bamboo and 

 paddy. 



Status.— A minor pest, rarely doing much damage even when 

 abundant. 



Control. — In small cane-plots the larva- may be hand-picked. 



UDASPES FOLUS, Cram. 



Papilio loins, ("ram., Pa]). Exot., I. t. 74, f. 7 ( 1 779). 



Udaspes folus, Davidson and Aitken, B.J., V, 371 372: Lefroy, 

 Ind. Ins. Pests, p. [68; [nd. Ins. Life, p. 432; Kershaw, Butt. 

 Hongkong, pp. 136 137, t. 14. f. 20. 



I ig. 295. Udaspes folus 



["he outlim ! un 



n 11.il. * 



tli'- ]i. 11 ill al size. 



Distribution. — Northern Circars and Coimbaton:. 



Lifehistory. Larva greenish (cither pale or dark 1 with a darker 

 stripe along the back caused 1>\ the digestive tract being visible 

 through the skin ; head brownish or blackish. Pupa with the 

 head-end produced into a beak, yellowish-white or greenish-white, 

 attached by an anal pad and a girdle; pupation inside a rolled 

 leal' but the pupa is not entirely concealed. Larva in a rolled leal 

 of the foodplant. 



Foodplants. Ginger, turmeric, and probablj wild lilies (Ker- 

 shaw notes the loodplant at Hongkong as Alpinia nutans). 



Status. Rather a scarce insect a- a rule hut occasionally a 

 set ious pest ot ginger and mrm 1 it . 



Control. The folded leaves containing the larvas and pupae are 

 easily seen and the insects collected by hand. 



