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Once it was found bad on young jute plants on the Dacca Farm. Mr. P. C. Sen. 

 Handpicking was commenced but fortunately there was a heavy shower 

 of rain soon afterwards, and this cleared oii the pest. 



We got a number of moths attracted to the Andres-Maire trap. Mr. Misra. 



In Egypt it feeds on cotton and bershn. ^^- ''o'^g^- 



With us it feeds freely on hershn where this crop is grown, but, is ^^- 5'letcher. 

 not known to occur on cotton at all in India. This is another case of 

 a pronounced difference of habit between what is supposed to be the same 

 insect in India and Egypt. It is possible that we may be dealing with 

 two or more insects which are really distinct although they may look 

 alike. In this connection I may call your attention to a recent paper 

 by Colonel Swinhoe in the Annals and Magazine of Nadiial History in 

 which he shows that the moths hitherto known as AmpJiipyra pyramidea 

 and supposed to occur in Europe, North India and Japan, really com- 

 prise no less than four species, the true fyaramidea from Europe being 

 replaced in the Punjab by magna and in Japan by two distinct species, 

 surnia and yama, these distinctions being based on differences in the 

 male genitalia. These four moths all look much alike and can only be 

 distinguished by making microscopic preparations of the male genitalia. 

 This shows us, I think, that we must not be too ready to assume that 

 the species we are dealing with are necessarily identical with others 

 apparently similar, especially when we get differences of habit as we 

 have already seen in the case of Amsada moorei and sara, and in Pro- 

 denia liiura and Laphygma exigua in Egypt and India. I shall be glad 

 to give Dr. C4ough some Indian male .specimens of our Prodenia liiura 

 and Laphygma exigua and it would be interesting if he would compare 

 their genitalia with those of Egyptian specimens and let us know the 

 result. 



I shall be very glad to do so. ^r. Gorg . 



Mudaria cornijrons, Mo. 



Mooie. Ird. Mu«. Notes, III, 69 figs. ; Hmpsn., F. I., II, 245, 

 f. 136, Cat. IX, 2-26, f. 87 ; I. I. L., p. 447, f. 307 ; Proc. 

 Second Entl. Meeting, p. 131. 



Laivse are common at Pusa in March-April in pods of Silk-cotton ^- Fletcher. 

 {Bcmbax md'ala icum), devouring the seeds and spoil'ng the lint. A 

 minor peet in ca.'^es wheie the pods are collected for the cotton. 



