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SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



Distribution. Throughout the Plains of Southern India. 



Lifehistory. Eggs .ire laid in masses overlapping one another. 

 Caterpillar dirty-white or pinkish-grey with numerous small dark 

 warts bearing short bristly hairs, head brownish, thoracic plate 

 horny. Pupa rather slender, yellow-brown, in gallery bored by the 

 larva in the stems of the larger cereals. 



Foodplants. -Cholam, ragi, maize, occasionally in cumbu and 

 sugarcane. 



Status. A serious pesl of cholam, ragi and maize, the larva 

 boring down the stem which it hollows out so that the whole 

 upi er pari ol the stem is filled with rotting excremental matter. 



Control. [) In large areas it is not practicable to pull out the 

 early affected plants but this can be done in small experimental 

 pints .md the like. 



(2) The female moths are attracted by light at night and 

 numbers can be caught at times by light-traps placed in and near 

 the affected fields. This is probably the only practical measure 

 on a large sea le. 



ANCYLOLOMIA CHRYSOGRAPHELLA, Koll. 



C/iiio chrysographellus, Kollar, Hugels Kaschmir, IV. 494. 



Ancylolomia chrysograplwlla, Hmpsn., Faun. [nd. Moths, IV, 33 ; 

 Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Lite, p. 511 ; Km. Mem. Uept. Agr., lnd.. I, 198. 





Ancylolomia chrysographella. The outline figure shows tin 

 natural size. < (riginal.) 



Distribution. Throughout Southern India. 



/.;/, history. — Caterpillar about 20 — 25 mm. long, cylindrical. 



slender, smooth, with short prolegs. in colour pale-green with black- 



d ind plate on prothorax. The caterpillar feeds at night, 



remaining during the day in hiding underground in long tubular 



