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Parnara bada, Mo. 



Lep. Indica X, 329-330, t. 834, ff. 1, la-c ; Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, p. 164. 



Common throughout the Plains of Southern India, Burma and Ceylon. 

 We have this from Pusa, Ootacamund, Bassein Fort and Maymyo, and 

 also examples bred from larvse on rice leaves at Eanchi, Daltonganj 

 and Karwar. 



Not hitherto recorded as a pest of paddy, but often occurs on this 

 crop in large numbers ; probably overlooked and confused with other 

 species. 



That brings us to the end of the butterflies, imless anyone has any Mr. Fletcher, 

 more butterflies to bring forward ? 



[Delias aglea. 



There is a wild mistletoe, a species of Loranthus, which is a pest on Mr. Andrews, 

 tea, in so far as it checks its growth. It is especially bad on tea-bushes 

 reserved for seed and planters have to spend a lot of money in cutting 

 this out. The larva of Delias aglea eats this parasite right down and 

 as such it is a beneficial insect. 



At Pusa we have Delias eucharis which feeds on Loranthus in a similar Mr. Fletcher. ' 

 way, but I am afraid it does not check the Loranthus very much. Indeed, 

 I have never seen so much Loranthus as there is here just at present on 

 the mango and Sissii trees.] 



Pyralid^. 

 Trachylepidia fructieassiella, Rag. 

 Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 4, f. 2. 

 The larva bores commonly in pods of Cassia fistula at Pusa. 



Stenachroia elongella, Hmpsn. 



Hmpsn., B. J. XII, 94 fig. ; S. 1. 1., p. 421, f. 296 ; Prcc. Second 

 Entl. Meeting, p. 183. 

 Has been reared in Madras from larvae on cholam ear-heads at Coim- 

 batore and Hagari and at Pusa from larvae on Sorghum ear-heads and 

 stems, maize cobs and marua ear-heads. A sporadic pest of these crops 

 in Madras and Bihar. Apparently not known in Western or Northern 

 India. 



