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SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



S] I < >I ROGA CEREALELLA, Oliv. 

 Alucita cerealella.— Olivier, Enc. Meth., IV (Ins. L), 121 (1789). 



Sitotroga cerealella. — Meyr., B.J., 

 W'l. 59] (1905); Busck, Pro.'. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., XXV, 782, t. 28, f. 3. 



Distribution. Throughout South' 

 em [ndia. 



Lifehistory. Eggs are laid on 

 grain into which the caterpillar 

 bores. This is a short, stout, whitish 

 grub with poorly-developed legs ; 

 when full-fed, it is about 4 nun. 

 long. Pupation inside the grain. 



Food. Stored grain (Paddy. 

 Maize, etc.) 



Status. — Not noticed much as a 

 rule but a strums pest ol stored 

 grain and in the aggregate must 

 do a great deal of damage. 

 Sitotroga cerealella. Fumigation and pre- 



nicjtli and larva. 1 he outline ...... , 



., , , servation .> gram in mseet-proot 



figun >how the natural sizes. «=»»«»" & 



(Original.) receptacles. 



<5?32i 



DICHOMERIS IANTHES, Meyr. 



Hypsoloplms ianthes.- Meyr., T-E.S. (1887), 273-274. 



Ypsolophus ianthes. — Meyr., Rec. Ind. Mus.. V, 223; T. Linn. Soc. 

 (2) XIV. 275. 



Ypsolophus oclirophanes.— Meyr., H.J. XVII. 981 (1907); Lefroy, 

 In. I. Ins. Lite. pp. 533-534- 



Dichomeris ianthes— -Meyr., BJ. XXII., 172 (1013). 



I ,,, (32. — Dichomeris matins, moth and profile view "I head. Tin 

 outlim !i ure shows the natural size. I Original.) 



