T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 85 
feature ; four segments free. Also recorded from Surat(!). It has also been 
reared at Coimbatore on 9th June 1913 from a pupa found on horse-radish, 
BRACHMIA ENGRAPTA, MEYR. : F 
Brachmia engrapta, Meyr., Exot. Micr., II, 114 (1918)(2).-ote0, Fre. Gort, reetiry 1.154 (Mu. 192 ) 
Bred at Lahore in July from larva on sweet-potato (1pomcaa  batatas). 
Also found at Coimbatore in October(?). 
BRACHMIA AROTRAA, MEYR. 
Cladodes arotrea, Meyr., T. E. §8., 1894, 15(2). ed Se 
Brachmia arotrea, Meyr., B. J., XX, 723 (1911)(?), Voutine, Tose. head Burt. beotiny 1 193 
This species was originally described from Koni (Burma)(!) and has 
since been recorded from Ceylon(2), the Khasi Hills(?) and Southern India(?). 
It seems to be widely distributed throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. 
It ‘has been bred in small 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.” (Proc. Sec. EK. M., p. 
164.) It has also been reared at Samalkota on paddy. 
A larva was found at Pusa on 17th September 1907, rolling a rice leaf to 
form a shelter inside which it lives, feeding on the leaf and filling the roll with 
excrement. The full-grown larva is about 9 mm. long, cylindrical, tapering 
posteriorly, light green ; head shiny black, labrum reddish-brown ; prothorax 
with a shiny, black shield ; mesothorax with a black subdorsal dot ; metathorax 
with a thick black shield; legs black, shiny ; abdominal segments with a 
light green dorsal stripe and several more or less interrupted lateral stripes ; 
primary hairs few, dark ; five pairs of dull white prolegs. Pupation takes place 
within the larval shelter. The pupa is 5 mm. long, cylindrical, tapering poster- 
riorly, brown. The pupal period is about six days. (Pusa Insectary Cage- 
slip 602.) 
BRACHMIA IDIASTIS, MEYR. / 
Brachmia idiastis, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 577 (June 1916)() Han 
Described from Pusa, where it was bred in June from larva feeding on 
Panicum sp.(}). 
Larve were found at Pusa on 5th April 1910 and 25th May 1914, rolling 
leaves of Panicum sp. The larva rolls a leaf longitudinally by foldmg the 
margins together, living inside the shelter so formed and eating the epidermis 
and also the mesophyll substance of the leaf, leaving entire one epidermal 
layer which turns yellow. 
Cec the 
) Gath beatles, T. 193 | 
Nov. 192 ) 
