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'1;E1)I-V(-;S of the TIIIKU KXTOMOI.OCUCAI, MliETINO 



Mr. Kamakru^hua 

 Ayyai'. 



and did considerable damage. This species has also been bred at Pma. 

 ircm a larva on rice leaves and on Graminese [species not specified]. 

 We also have moths collected in the Shevaroy Hills and at Pusa. 



It did not appear in 1918. I have had a coloured plate of this done^ 



[(xhihited]. 



Cirphis fmgilis, Butl. 



Hmpsn.. F. I.. II, 275 [Leucania fragilis]. Cat. V, 546, t. 93,. 

 f. 26 ; I. I. L., p. 446 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 195. 

 The larva is said by Hampson to do " much damage to wheat ii* 

 Chhindwara District, Central Provinces," but it is not known to have^ 

 occurred as a pest of late years. It is probably a sporadic local pest. 



Chyhis wiipiincta. Haw. 



S. I. I., p. 370, t. 18 ; Proc. Secotid Entl. Meeting, pp. 101, 179, 

 189, 195, 198, 202. 

 Occurs commonly throughout India as a major pest of Gramineas,. 

 especially Ji<«v and rice. We have examples from the following localities. 

 and food plants : — 



M)-. ?. C. Se»J. It is a very bad sporadic pest of rice in Bengal, cutting the ripening 



ears by night. It was reported from several districts last year. The 

 period of activity of the caterpillars is not long. , Reports are usually 

 received only after the outbreak has subsided. 



Mr, ffiliate. Does this species come in to the And.es-Maire trap ? 



m. a. L. Du(t. Yes. 



Mt. F.ietcher. It is not attracted in sufficient numbers to hope for any control by 



this means. At Peshawar the caterpillars of this and allied species of 

 Cirphis are extensively preyed on by the larvae and adults of Calosmiia 

 indica, a large Carabid beetle, which frequents the places where the- 



