LEPIDOPTERA. 



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Foodplants. Padclj . 



Stiitus.-- A verj serious pest of paddy in Southern India. 

 Control. — (i) The moths .in- strongly attracted at night to light 

 .iiul may be caught in large numbers by means of light-traps. 



onspicuOUS and. when plentiful, are 

 d-picked. 

 Paddy-stubbles should be ploughed up, and if possible 

 burnt alter the harvesl is gathered. 



s \i.i kia [NFIC1 I A. Wlk. 



Acrobasis inficita, Wlk.. Cat. X.W'II. 30 (1863). 

 Poujadia inficita. Rag.. Mon. Phyc, t. 44, f. l8;Hmpsn. 

 Ind. Moths, IV. 58. 



■a inficita. I I 



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