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Dendrocalamus strictus, Nees (Graminese). 

 Ochlandra stridula, Thwaites (Graminese). 



234. Baoris (Parnara) kumara, Moore. 

 Bambusa arundinacea, Willd. {Graminese). 

 Ochlandra stridula, Thwaites (Graminese) . 



In the first Kanara paper (p. 370, n. 80) it is noted that this species 

 feeds on rice, Oryza sativa, Linn., Natural Order Graminese, and that 

 the figure of the larva (pi. F, fig. 4) is represented on a bamboo leaf 

 by mistake. Mr. Bell has only bred the larva on bamboos, and doubts 

 that it feeds on rice or on any true grasses. Messrs. Elwes and 

 Edwards (I.e., p. 276) record P. kumara in South India only from the 

 Nilgiris, in North India only from Sikkim, and from Java and Borneo. 

 In spite of the elaborate keys given by these gentlemen to distinguish 

 the various species of the genus, I find it extremely difficult to differ- 

 entiate many of the species given as distinct from coloration and mark- 

 ings only. I have not studied the prehensores, which appear to be 

 the only safe test by which, they can be satisfactorily distinguished, 

 and that test will apply to the males only. I possess no specimens of 

 I), kumara from Kanara. 



235. Baoris (Parnara) philippina, Herrich-Schaffer. 

 Bamboo (Graminese). 



Recorded by Messrs. Elwes and Edwards (I.e., p. 276) from 

 N. Canara (E. H. Aitken), but omitted from their two Kanara lists by 

 Messrs. Davidson, Bell and Aitken. They have probably failed to 

 identify it, placing it under B. kumara, Moore, to which species it is 

 so closely allied that in spite of Messrs. Elwes and Edwards key to 

 separate them, I am often in doubt as to which of the two species 

 I should apportion certain specimens. B. philippina is said to have in 

 the forewing a white spot in the submedian interspace touching the 

 submedian nervure just beyond its middle, which B. kumara lacks. All 

 my Kanarese specimens possess this spot. Many specimens have this 

 spot very faint indeed, obsolescent in fact, so that one is in doubt as to 

 which species these specimens belong. 



Larva. The larva has the head heart-shaped, but it is rather 

 narrow at the top and slightly indented, the vertices of the lobes 

 being rounded ; the face is shiny and pitted all over, without hairs 

 except about the mouth where there are a few ; the colour is white, 

 with a broad, black band round the head, ending at the eyes, a black 

 line down the centre of the face, splitting into two just before the 

 apex of the clypeus, the two parts running parallel to the sides of the 



