114 PEOCEEDI-N'GS OF THE THIED ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



A major pest of pomegranate, the fiuit being bored by the larva, 

 which also occasionally attacks guava, orange and other fruit'^. Our 

 records include the following locaUties and foodplants : — 



. Coimbatore .... Pomegranate, wood-apple, orange. 

 Bangalore .... Apple (boring in fruity. 



Surat . . . ■ . . Pomegranate. 



Pusa Pomegranate, guava fruit, plums (alu bo- 



khara) (Pnmus communis), peach fruit. 

 Nagpur ..... Orange, dchamali fruit (Gardenia gnmvii- 



Also attacks tamarind fniits and Bell gives fruits of Garden a and 

 Randia and Strychnos nux-romica. 



In Bengal it is a very common pest of pomegranate. The cater- 

 pillars are found on guava also, but in very small numbers. 



Hesperiad^. 

 Parata alexis, Fb. 

 Lep. Indica IX, 253-255, t. 752, ff. 3, 3a-d. 

 Widely distributed in the Plains. 



Has been reared at Coimbatore and Chepauk from larvae on leaves- 

 of Pongamia glabra and also on castor and at Nagpur from larvae on 

 " Kanji." 



Not known to be a pe^t. 



Spialia galha, Fb. 

 Lep. Indica X, 99-101, t. 781, ff. 1, la-c. 

 Widely distributed throughout the Plains. 



Has been reared at Pusa from larvae on Sida rhomhifolia, on hollyhock 

 leaves, and on soybean {Glycine hisjnda). Davidson, Bell and Aitken 

 bred it fiom Wallheria indica. 

 Not a pest. 



Ampittia d'oscorides, Fb. 



Hesper:a dioscorides. Fb., Ent. Sy~t. Ill, 329, (1793) ; Swinh.,^ 

 Lep. Indica X, 125-126, t. 786, ff. 1, la-d [Ainpittia] ; Proc, 

 Second Entl. Meeting, p. 164. 

 Hesperia maro, Fb., Ent. Syst. SuppL p. 432, (1798). 

 Occurs in Sikkim, Burma, South India and Ceylon. 

 It was reared by Davidson, Bell and Aitken from larvae on rice and 

 grasses and has been reared on paddy at Coimbatore and Samalkota.- 

 Probably^ veiy minor pest of rioe. 



