lib PEOCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Telicola augias, Linn. 



S. I. I., pp. 419-420, f. 294 ; Lep. Indica X, 246-247, t. 813, 

 ff. 2, la-c ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 149, 164, 204. 

 Common througlioiit the Plains of India. We have it from Pusa,. 

 Cuttack, Palur and Coimbatore, in all cases reared from sugarcane. 



The larva feeds commonly on cane-leaves, and is also said to feed on 

 bamboos and rice rarely, but is scarcely a pest. 



Caltoris colaca. Mo. 



S. I. I., p. 413, f. 292, [Parnara] ; Lep. Indica 316-317, t. 831^ 

 ff. 1, la-c ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 164. 

 Common throughout the Plains. Our specimens are from Pusa 

 (larva on rice), Chingleput (larva on paddy) and Bassein Fort, Bombay 

 (larva on grasses). 



Scarcely a pest of paddy. 



Caltoris bevani, Mo. 

 Lep. Indica X, 318 1. 831, ff. 2, 2a-6 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 164.- 

 Occurs throughout the Plains of India (except South) and Burma. 

 We have examples reared from larvse found on rice leaves at Pusa and 

 Samalkota. 



Not known as a pest. 



Chopra mathias, Fb. 



S. I. I., pp. 417-418, t. 27 [Parnara] ; Lep. Indica X, 320-321, 

 t. 831, ff. 3, 3a-c; Entl. Mem.V, 67-72, t. 9; Proc. Second 

 Entl. Meeting, pp. 164, 180. 

 Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. We have butter- 

 flies from Peshawar, Bassein Fort, Pollibetta, Coimbatore, Ootacamund, 

 the Anamalai Hills, Mandalay, Maymyo, and Myitkyina, as well as 

 examples bred from laivse on rice at Nagpur, Pusa, Daltonganj, Poona 

 and Thana District. It has also been reared at Pusa on jimr and once 

 on sann-hemp leaves (collected on sann-hemp in field). 



A minor pest of paddy as a rule, and sporadically bad in most districts. 

 I found one caterpillar on a leaf of sann-hemp. 

 Sann-hemp is a very unusual food-plants Possibly it had wandered 

 ofi grass. 



