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Exelasiis atomosa, Wlsm. 



S. 1. 1., pp. 444-445, t. 38 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 44, 56. 



Occurs throughout Madras, Bombay, Baroda, the Central Provinces 



and Bihar. I have not seen any specimens from Northern India, Assam, 



Burma or Ceylon (previous records from Ceylon ^jrobably all refer to 



E. phlyctanias, Meyr.). 



An important pest of Cajanus indicus and DolicJios lablab, the larva 

 eating the flower-buds and flowers and boring into the pods and devouring 

 the seeds. 



In the Sholapur District control is practised by shaking the plants 

 over baskets and a small proportion of larvae and pupae is collected in 

 this way. 



Plerophorus lienigianus, Z. 

 S. I. I., p. 445, f. 322 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 288. 

 Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. Has been reared 

 on brinjal at Coimbatore and in the Godavari District but is scarcely 

 a pest. We have moths also from Ootacamund, Peshawar, Maymyo, 

 Shillong, and Bankipur, and it has been reared at Pusa on leaves of 

 " Khagra." [" Khagra " is given in Watt's Dictionary as Saccharum 

 spontaneum, but this seems unlikely.] 



PSYCHID^. 



MaJiasena graminivora, Hmpsn. 



Hmpsn., T. E. S., 1895, 286; F. I., IV, 472-473 ; I. M. N., IV, 

 18-19,t.3,ff.la-c. 

 Originally described from Calcutta as destructive to thatching grass. 

 Occasionally occurs on paddy in some numbers as a minor pest in Bihar, 

 Orissa and Bengal. We have it, reared from larvae on Saccharum sponta- 

 neum, from Pusa and Mukhtapur in North Bihar. 



MaJiasena theivora, Ddgn. 



Acanthopsyche {Metisa) theivora, Ddgn., B. J., XVI, 400 fig. 



Mahasena theivora, Hmpsn., B. J., XX, 96-97. 

 Occurs in Sikkim, the larva on tea in a case composed of fragments 

 and whole leaves attached to a rather soft case. Apparently not a 

 pest. 



