KHYNCHOTA. 



493 



Phenice 

 moesta. The outline 

 figure shows the natural 

 size. (Original.) 



Distribution. — Throughout the Plains of 

 Southern India. 



Lifehistory.—'Nol known. Muir (Hawaii 

 S.P. Bull. No. 12) says that the immature 

 I in rotting wood; certainly 

 only adults arc found on plants. 



Foodplants. Sugar-cane and various 

 Grasses, occasionally on Cholam, Palms 

 and various other plants. 



Status. A \ erj minor pest. 



i In'ng in hand-net-. 



Remarks. .Numbers of these bugs may 

 often be seen sitting in rows on the lower 

 side of leaves of Sugar-cane, etc., and 

 readily jumping off and taking to winy 

 when disturbed. 



Fig. 381. — Pyrilla perpusilla outline figure shows the natural 



mal.> 



PYRILLA PERPUSILLA, Wlk. 



Pyrops perpusilla, Walker. List Horn., II, 269(1851). 

 Zamila perpusilla, Distant. Faun. Ind. Rhym. Ill, 327. 



