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■Green from pods of sword-bean {Canavalia ensiformis) at Peradeniya 

 in July 1903. 



PJiycita infusella, Meyr. 



S. I. I., pp. 428-429, t. 31 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 100, 125, 126. 



Probably occurs throughout the Plains of India. The Pusa Collec- 

 tion contains examples bred at Pusa, Surat and Lyallpui on cotton 

 and at Pusa on top-shoots of Malvaslrum trkrejyidatum. Also reared in 

 Madras on Hibiscus spp. 



A minor pest of cotton, the larvae sometimes doing appreciable 

 damage to young shoots, especially in the Surat District. 



The affected shoots should be picked off and destroyed. 



At Surat we find it every year as a serious pest. Mr. jhaveii. 



At Pusa it is controlled by an unidentified parasite. Mr. Misra. 



Phycila clientella, Z. 

 Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 94 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 288. 



Recorded from Calcutta, Bombay and Ceylon. We have specimens Mr. Fletcher, 

 leared at Pusa and Hagari (Bellary District) from castor fruits and at 

 Pusa from larvae rolling brinjal leaves. 



Scarcely a pest. 



Bhodofhcea heringi, Rag. 

 Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 99, f. 58. 



Recorded from the Nilgiris and Ceylon, in which island the larva has 

 been found destructive to foliage of ErytJiroxylon coca at Matale. We have 

 specimens from Gammaduwa, Ceylon. 



Cryptoblabes ephestialis, Hmpsn. 

 Hmpsn., B. J. XV, 32. 



Originally described from Matale in Ceylon. It has also been bred 

 by Green from larvae in fruit-capsules of castor at Peradeniya and is 

 likely to be found under similar circumstances in India. 



