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Eucosma critica, Meyr. 



Eucelis critica, S. I. I., p. 450, t. 39 ; Proo. Second Meeting, 



pp. 12, 42. 

 Eucosma ludicra, Meyr., B. J., XXI, 867, Exot. Micr. II, 19 



(1916). 

 Eucosma tricliocrossa, Meyr., Exot. Micr. I, 563-564 ; Entl. 

 Note 76, {Laspeyresia.'] 

 Originally described from specimens reared from larvae in spim-up 

 «hoots of Cajanus indicus at Surat. Said to occur at Poona as a minor 

 pest and in the Central Provinces on young plants. The larvae have been 

 found at Pusa boring the pods and eating the seeds of arhar (Cajanus 

 iiidicus) in April and May and also on the flower-buds and top-leaves. 

 Also at Coimbatore on Cajanus indicus. 



Kemoval of affected top-shoots should provide control. 



Eucosma melanaula, Meyr. 

 Meyr., Exot. Micr. II, 17-18 (1916). 



Bred at Coimbatore, 3rd March 1915, from a larva on green-gram 

 pods. Also reared at Pusa, 4th March 1913, from flower of Cajanus 

 indicus ; 11th October 1907, from top-shoots of urid ; 30th June 1911, 

 frotn mung pod. Since found at Pusa in numbers boring top-shoots 

 of Phaseolus aconitifolius and Florida Begger-weed and in mung flowers 

 and pods. We have also moths collected at Pusa in .January-March, 

 and it is also known from the Khasi Hills. 



Probably widely distributed but hitherto mixed up with Eucosma 

 £ritica. 



Eucosma zelota, Meyr. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 264. 

 Has been found at Abbottabad, where the larvae spin and bunch 

 together young rose leaves. A garden pest. 



Lohesia ceolopa, Meyr. 

 Meyr., B. J., XVII, 976. 

 Tliis species has been bred in Ceylon from Cajanus indicus. It is 

 commonly and widely chstributed in India and Burma and has been 

 reared in India from Lantana flower heads and from castor. Also recorded 

 from Reunion and Cape Colony. 

 Not known as a pest. 



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