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Parallelta algira, Linn. 

 Hmpsn., F. I., II, 500-501, f. 280 [OpMusa], Cat. XII, 596-598, f. 133. 

 Occasionally found feeding on castor together with Achcsa janata. 

 We have a specimen bred from a larva found on castor at Cuttack and 

 it was recorded as defoliating castor at Peradeniya in July 1903 and is 

 likely to occur as a sporadic pest on castor throughout the Plains of 

 India, Burma and Ceylon. 



Grammodes geomelrica, Fb. 

 Hmpsn., F. I., II, 531, f. 296, Cat. XIII, 18-20, f. 4 ; I. I. L., p. 451. 

 Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. The larva is stated 

 (Indian Insect Life, p. 451) to feed on rice and we have a specimen from 

 Balaghat (Central Provinces) labelled " on rice," but it is doubtful 

 whether this was actually bred. Stated to feed on grasses at Nagpur. ' 

 Hampson gives Polygonum persicaria and Cistus salvifolia as the food- 

 plants in Europe. The larva is figured by Hofmann (Raupen, t. 36 

 f. 24). 



Grammodes stolida, Fb. 



S. I. I., pp. 387-388, f. 251 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 89. 



Widely distributed throughout India and Burma and is an occasional 

 minor pest of Hnseed in Madras. 



Chalciope hyppasia, Cr. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XIII, 27-29 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 80, 206. 

 Trigonodes hyppasia, Hmpsn., F. I., II, 527 ; I. I. L., p. 451, f. 311. 

 Common throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, but noi known as 

 a pest except on one occasion when it was found defoliating indigo at 

 Champaran on 1st April 1901 ; the Pusa Collection contains one of these 

 moth-5 reared on indigo and the identification is certain. It also feeds 

 on lucerne. 



Pe'amia fnujalis, Fb. 

 Hmpsn., Cat. XIII, 87-89, f. 23 ; S. I. I., pp. 388-389, f. 253 [Remigia]. 

 Occurs abundantly throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. The 

 larva feeds as a rule on wild grasses but occasionally invades cultivated 

 areas as a minor pest of Gramineas. It has been reared a*^ Kannapuram 

 (N. Malabar) on paddy, at Nagpur on jiuir and grasses, and at Pusa on 

 paddy, sugarcane, (Sypzrus rotundus and Phaseolus mungo radiatus. 



In Ceylon it attacks Guinea-grass. Mr. Senior- White. 



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