I'ROCiEDI.NGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 385 



Raphimetopiis {Anerastia) ablutella (C. S. 1801). 

 Plate 44, fig. 1. 

 Foodplant — Sugarcane . 



In tlie course of the two seasons 1917 and 1918, the caterpillars of 

 this species were observed to occur in very small numbers in young 

 sugarcane in April 1918 and to cause " dead heart" like the other 

 borers. 



The full-grown larva is about 16 mm. long and about 2 mm. across 

 the middle of the body which is cylindrical and slightly tapering at 

 the ends. The head is yellow-brown, glossy. The j^rothorax green ; 

 the meso-and metathorax and the abdomen copper-coloured dorsally 

 and greenish ventrally. The spiracles are round, yellow-brown. The 

 hairs are brown, thin and longish. The booklets on prolegs are in a 

 complete circle. 



One pupated on 3rd May and emerged as moth on the 11th May. 

 The pupa is about 8 mm. long and tapermg hindwards, the hind end 

 having a few long circinate hairs. The colour is greenish brown. 



This insect is stated by Messrs. Mackenzie and Lefroy to have been 

 found in great numbers at Siripur, Hathwa, Saran, in young sugarcane 

 when about three weeks to a month above the ground. (Agri. Journ. 

 Ind. Ill, p. 104). The larva observed by them was completely green. 



Chilo simplex, Butl. 

 Plates 45—47. 

 Foodplants — 



Maize — Pusa ; Mii-purkhas ; Sukkur ; Poona ; Jhalrapatan ; Lyall- 



pur. 

 Juar (Andropogon Sorghum) — Pusa; Mirpurkhas ; Landhi ; Lar- 



kana ; Sukkur ; Jalaun ; Jhalrapatan ; Babugarh ; Lyallpur. 

 Sugarcane — Pusa. 

 Rice — Pusa ; Konkan. 



Bajra (Pemiisetum tgphoideum) — Pusa ; Sukkur ; Mirpurkhas. 

 Sama [Panicum frumentaceum) — Pusa. 

 Marua (Eleusine coracana) — Pusa. 

 Sudan grass — Pusa. 



Job's Tears (Coix lachrijma-johi) — Konkan. 

 In this list of foodplants the localities cited are those from which 

 the larvse have been collected in the course of the last two years and 

 definitely identified as those of Chilo simplex. 



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