LEPIDOPTERA. 



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Lifehistory. — The pale-green eggs are laid singly on young 

 pods and leaves of the foodplant, the caterpillar boring into 

 the pod and devouring the seed. The caterpillar is about 10 mm. 

 noderately stout, denselj clothed with short hairs and with 

 long spines emitted from raised warts ; in colour it is green, usually 

 with a pink or brown stripe down the back. Pupa thickly clothed 

 with spinous hairs, attached by the tail, greenish or pinkish. 



Foodplants. Red Gram (Cajanus indicus), Dolichos lab-lab. 



Status. An important pest of Red Gram and Lab-lab. 



Control. — ? 



PTEROPHORUS LIENIGIANUS, Z. 



Pterophorus Uenigianus, Zeller, Linn. Ent., VI, 380 ; Meyr., T.E.S. 

 (1907), 407; Fletcher, Spol. Zcylan., VI, 34-35 (1909). 



Pterophorus serindibanus. Moore, Lip. Cej Ion. Ill, 527. t. 209, f. 14. 



/'/, r< phorns Uenigianus. The -mall figure sh(«s the 1 

 size. (Original.) 



Distribution. Godavari, Coimbatore. Probablj throughoul 

 Southern India. 



Lifehistory. Caterpillar about 8 10 mm. long, moderatelj stout, 

 hairy, very pale yellowish, head brown. 



Foodplants. — Brinjal (Solatium melongena). [In Europe on Artemisia 

 vulgaris. Doubtless polyphagous.] 



Status.— Scarcely a pest. Caterpillars found eating leaves "1 

 I'.i in jal on iv. occasions. 



Remarks. — The moths seem to run much smaller than European 

 specimens but otherwise do not seem to differ. 



