Mr. Shroff. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
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recorded on one occasion as found in large numbers destroying rice- 
fields together with larvae of Spodoptera mauritia, but is not otherwise 
known as a rice-pest, and this record requires confirmation. 
Ampittia dioscorides (maro) occurs in Sikkim, Burma, South India. 
and Ceylon. It has been reared from caterpillars on rice and grasses, 
but is not known to do any damage to paddy. 
Telicota augias is common throughout the Plains of India. It feeds 
as a rule on sugarcane but is also said to feed more rarely on bamboos 
and on rice. It is not a pest of paddy. 
Caltoris (Parnara) colaca is alsocommon throughout the Plains of 
India. We have examples reared on paddy at Pusa and Chingleput but: 
it is scarcely a pest of paddy. : 
Caltoris (Parnara) bevani occurs in Burma and throughout the Plains. 
of India, except in the South. We have examples reared from rice-leaves. 
at Pusa and Samalkota but it is not known as a pest of paddy. 
Chapra mathias was described and figured in “ South Indian Insects ”’, 
pp. 417-418, tab. 27, and again more recently in Entomological Memoirs, 
Vol. V, pp. 67-72, tab. 9. It occurs throughout India, Burma and 
Ceylon. We have examples reared from larve on rice from Nagpur, 
Pusa, Daltonganj, and Thana District. It is a minor pest of paddy 
as a rule, said to be serious in Travancore, and sporadically bad in most 
districts ; but it may be observed that several of the preceding species 
of Hesperiadee have been lumped together with Chapra mathias in a 
good many cases. 
Chapra mathias was once reported in Burma as doing damage in 
the Upper Chindwin District. 
Parnara bada is common throughout the Plains of Southern India, 
Burma and Ceylon, and occurs at least as far North as Bihar and Bombay- 
We have examples bred from caterpillars found on rice leaves at Ranchi, 
Daltonganj and Karwar. This species has not hitherto been recorded 
as a pest of paddy, but often occurs on this crop in large numbers. It 
has probably been overlooked and confused with some of the other 
species. ; 
Brachmia arotrea is a small Gelechiad which has been bred in smalf 
numbers from larvee on rice leaves at Pusa and Katni (Central Provinces). 
We have it also from Cuttack and Palamau, and it occurs in Burma and 
Ceylon. It is therefore likely to be found on paddy in most districts but 
is not a pest, so far as we know. 
Nymphula depunctalis [“‘ South Indian Insects’’, pp. 430-431, 
tab. 32] occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon as a minor pest of 
paddy, sometimes serious, especially in water-logged tracts. Draining 
the water off the affected fields is effective when this can be done but is 
