464 SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC 



The caterpillar rolls leaves of Fiats. Pupa red-brown, in a tough 

 paper-like cocoon, occasionally spun on a leaf but more usuallj 



in .1 crack of the bark or similar situation ; pupal period about 

 15 days. 



Foodplants. -Ficusoi various spi 



Status. -Occasionally in such numbers as to do damaj 

 Fig-trees. 



Control . ': 



I'UTHI.Un.l 

 PLUTELL \ M \< ULIPENNIS, Curt. 



Cerostoma maculipennis, Curt., Brit. Ent., IX, t. 420 (1832). 

 Pltttella cruciferarum, Zeller, Stett. Ent. Zeit, IV. 281 283 (1843) ; 



Quanjer, Tidjs. Ent. (1906). II, 17, t. 1 2. 



Plutella maculipennis, Meyr., Rec. Ind- Mus., V. 229; Lefroy, bid. 



Ins. Pests, p. 152, ff. 170 i/i; Ent. Mem. Dep. Agri., Ind., I. 225. 

 f. 69; Ind. Ins. I. ilc, p. 538, f. 345. 



Distribution. Throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory. — The eggs arc laid singly on leaves. The full-grown 

 caterpillar is about 8 mm. long, moderately stout, attenuated at 

 each extremity, smooth, with short scattered bristly hair>. in colour 

 pale-green with a pale-brown head and prothoracic shield. Pupa 

 in a slight silken cocoon <>t open texture; pupal period about 

 ten days. 



Foodplants. — Cabbage, cauliflower, radish, mustard, and other 

 cruciferous plants. 



Status. — The caterpillar eats holes in the leaves of cabbage, etc., 

 and may sometimes almost skeletonize the leaf. A minor pest as a 

 rule. 



Control. -Spraying with Naphthaline Emulsion in the case of 

 edible plants. 



IIILAROGRAPHA CAMINODES, Meyr. 



Hilarographa caminodes, Meyr.. B.J., XVI. 610 (1905) ; G 



Perad Circ, II, 17, p. 250 (not named). 



Lifehistory and Foodplants. The larva bores in the root of 

 cultivated Cardamoms and in wild Zingiberaceous plants. The 

 eggs are laid on the exposed upper part of the bulb; the stem propei 

 is able to resist attack (Green). 



Control. — Green (I.e.) suggests earthing over the exposed bulbs. 



Remarks. Recorded as .1 pest of Cardamoms in Ceylon. Not 

 yet noted from India, so far as 1 am await-, but included here as it 

 is likely to occur. I have been unable to obtain a specimen for 

 illustration. 



