LEPIDi I] 



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green with a blackish head and dirk prothoracic shield. Pupation 

 in .1 slight silken coco >n in folded le tves. Caterpillar in top-shoots, 

 which wither and drop. 



Foodplant. Cotton, Roselle and Gogu {Hibiscus cannabinus). 



Status. A minoi pesl o1 cotton, occasionally appearing in some 

 numbers on young plants. 



('intra!, (i) Picking and destruction of affected top-shoots. 

 (2) Attraction of moths bv light-traps. 



In, 



ETIELLA ZINCKENELLA, Tr. 

 . . . sinckenella, Treitschke, Schm. Eur., IX. p. 201. 

 Etiella zinckenella, Hmpsn., Faun! 1ml. Moths, IV, [08 [09; Lefroy, 



. Ins. 1 .ite, p. 515. 



. nella. Thi ire shows the natural size, 



inal. 



Distribution. Throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory. Caterpillar green with five black spots on protltoracic 



shield; when about to pupate it turns pink. Pupation in silken 

 cocoon outside the pod. 



Foodplant il gram, Cowpea, Red Gram, San n Hemp. 



Status. A minor pest of pulses as a rule, occasionally doing 

 1 onsiderable damage, the whole of the seeds being destroyed in 

 pmls entered by the caterpillars. 



Cunt rot. ? 



MAC U.l. \ M< IN< USALIS, Wlk. 



Macalla moncnsalis, Wlk.. ("at. XVI, 252; Hmpsn.. Faun. Ind. 

 Moths. IV, 1 13. 



