LEPIDOPTERA. 



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Lifehistory. The caterpillar is semi-aquatic, living in 

 made of rolled pieces ol leaf, and is furnished with bunches ol 

 slender filamentous gills along the sides. The caterpillar is slender, 

 about 15 mm. long, in colour pale green with an orange head. It 

 feeds on tin- green tissue of the leaf. Pupation in the larval ease. 



Foodplant. Paddy. 



Status. A serious pest ol Paddy, sometimes causing great 

 dam, 1 



Control. Draining the water off the affected fields, when practi- 

 1 able, is indicated, but this is rarely possible. In some districts a 

 thorny bush is dragged over the field to dislodge the larval cases 

 and the walei then drained off; it is difficult to see what is the 

 value of the thorn) branch and the draining of the water is evidently 

 the important factor where success is claimed in treatment of this 

 pest. 



HYMENIA PASCIALIS 



Phalama fascialis, Cramer, Pap. Exot., IV. t. 398, f.< >. (1782). 



Phalana recurvalis, Fabr., Ent. Syst., III. ii. 237 (1794). 



Zinckenia fascialis, Hmpsn., Faun. Iml. Moths, IV. 262, I. [58; 

 Lefroy, Iml. Ins. Pests, p. [82 ; Ent. Mem. Agri. Dept., 1ml.. I, 208. 

 fig, 02 : Iml. Ins. Life, p. 516. 



Hvmenia fascialis, Marsh, U.S.A. Entom. Bull. No. loo. Pt. [(iQll). 



Hy men ia fascialis. 1. Moth ; 

 • ml natural size) ; 4 6, 1 

 natni 



' rsh.) 



Distribution. Throughout Southern India. 



