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cence. We have a]so a specimen from Peiadeniya and the species is 

 widely distributed throughout India, fiom Kashmir (o Sikkim and in 

 ■Southern India and Ceylon. 



Giaura s:eplica, Swinh. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XI, 283 ; I. I. L., p. 450 [Cletthara] ; Proc. 



Second Entl. Meeting, p. 47. 



Has been reared at Pusa and Surat from larvae on velvet bean and 



soy bean, of which it is a sporadic minor pest. Also at Pusa from larva 



on Butea frondosa flower. Widely di.stributed throughout India, Burma, 



Ceylon and the Andamans. 



Selepa celtis, Mo. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XI, 298, f. 105 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 



pp. 218, 229, 246, 264. 

 Plotheia celtis, Hmpsn., F. I., II, 370 ; 1. 1. L., p. 449, f. 308. 

 The Pusa collection contains reared examples from Coimbatore on 

 Odina wodier and from Pusa on litchi leaves, mango leaves and buds, 

 rose leaves, Terminalia catajpfa leaves and Loranthus leaves. Other 

 recorded foodplants are Ficui glomerata and Gmelina arborea. 



The species occurs thioughout India and Burma as a .sporadic pest 

 (sometimes serious) of Ihe plants and trees mentioned. 



Plotheia nepJielotis, Meyr. MS. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 287. 



A minor pest of brinjal, On which it has been reared in Travancore 



and at Calicut, Coimbatore, Tiruvallur and Melro-epuram (Madras), 



Nagpur, Lyallpur and Pusa ; also at Hagari (Bellary District) on a wild 



folanaceous plant. 



The larva attributed to this species by Lefroy {Indian Insect Life, 

 p. 449) is probably the larva of Euhlemma olivacea. 



Tae specific name nephelotis is an unpublished manuscript name. 



Brinjal Sarrothripine. 

 S. I. I., p. 383, f. 246. 

 Has been reared at Coimbatore and in Malabar on brinjal and at 

 Hagari on Solanum xanthocarpum. This is probably the same as the 

 preceding. 



