440 



SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



Hawaiian Islands and in Formosa and will probably be found to 

 attack this crop in India also. 



MARUCA TESTULALIS, Geyer. [PLATE XXXVI.] 



Pyralis testulalis, Geyer in Hubn. Samml exot. Schmett, IV, 4, 



p. 12, IT. 629, 630; Hmpsn., Faun. Ind. Moths, IV, 393-394, f. 211 ; 

 . Ind. Ins. Pests, p. 149, f. 169; En't. Mem. Agri. Dipt.. Ind.. 

 I, 216, f. 66 ; Ind. Ins. Life, p. 519, f. 342. 



Distribution. — Throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory. — Caterpillar about 15 nun. long, rather slender, 

 segments with dark rounded warts emitting single short bristly 

 hairs ; in colour pale brownish-green, head olive-brown. It bores 

 into the end of pods and devours the ripening seeds one after 

 another. The larval burrow is marked by a mass ot brownish 

 excrement at the entrance of the gallery. The yellowish-green 

 pupa in a large oval cocoon. Pupal period about a week. 



Foodplants. Dolichos lab-Lib, green gram (Phaseolus mungo), red 

 gram. 



Status. — A minor pest of pulses. 



Control. — Collection and destruction of affected pods. 



PACHYZANCLA .ICGROTALIS, Zell. 

 Botys cegrotalis, Zeller, K. Vet.-AK. Handl., p. 38 (1852). 

 Pachyzancla cegrotalis, Hmpsn.. Faun. Ind. Moths, IV, 405; 

 Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, pp. 519-520. 



1 117.— Pachyzancla cegrotalis. Che outline figure shows thi hum. J 



1 1 : inal.) 



Distribution. — Coimbatore ; Malabar; S. Kanara. 



