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Geometres, 



[The moths are usually slender-built creatures, with large wings and comb-like 

 antennse. The caterpillars are long, slender, smooth creatures, which have but few 

 prolegs, and these set very far hack ; they hump up the middle of the body into a 

 loop in progressing, and are hence called loopers. 



133. Bjiithecia cojfearia Felder MS. (Larentidte) . — Said to attack 

 coffee {Coffea aralica) bushes in Ceylou (Nietiier). 



134<. BoafmialeucosUgmafiaYe\A.e\'M^.; also Boarmia zeylanicaria 

 Felder MS. ( BoarmidEe) . — Both said to attack coffee [Coffea arabica) 

 bushes in Ceylon. 



135. Obscure Looper caterpillars, reported as defoliating iea{CamelUa 

 tJieifera) bushes in Nowgong, Assam. 



Delioides. 



136. Bragana pansalis Walker (Herminiidse). — A small moth, said 

 to be injurious to sugarcane [Saccharum oficmariim) ; nothing further is 

 known about it. 



Mierolepidoptera. 

 [Minute moths, with very various habits.] 



137. DiATRACA SACCHAEALis Cotes (CrambidBe). — The caterpillars of 

 this moth are little white grubs, about an inch in length. They tunnel 

 into sugarcane {SaccAarnm offlcinarum) and maize stalks [Zea Mays), and 

 do a great amount of damage in India. Closely allied or identical insects 

 tunnel into sorghum stalks [Sorghum vulgare), not, only destroying much 

 of the crop, but also rendering tlie plant unwholesome to cattle. The 

 insect is said by Duthie and Fuller to be known by the natives of the 

 North-West Provinces, iu the case of sugarcane as silai, and in the case 

 of sorghum as bhaunri. The sugarcane boier has been reported from 

 Earoda, where it was said to be known as narkote ; from the Rungpore, 

 Hooghly, and Burdsvan districts, where it was said to be known as dhosah ; 

 from Mymensingh, where it was said to be known as mandaruah ; from 

 Ganjam, where it was said to be known as wonjikila purwgu; from Sib- 

 pore, where it was said to be known as, majera ; and from Cawnpore, 

 where it was said to be known as reotha. An allied caterpillar tunnels 

 into the stems of brinjal {Solanum Melongeiia) plants : this insect has been 

 reported from Ganjam, where it is said to be known as vanga purugu ; also 

 from Berhampore and Ranchi, 



138. Ludioptes itidica Saunders (Margaronidae). — Described a 

 attacking the leaves of cotton [Gossyjmim kerhaceutn) plants in Java. I 

 is likely also to occur in India. 



