10 Indian Economic Entomology/. [ Yoi, II, 



Lord Walsing-ham, wlio reports that it is a SetomorpJia (Tioeidse), which 

 he is unable to distinguish from the African species^ SetomorpJia rutdla 

 of Zeller, 



The common little case-making- moth found everywhere on house 

 ^alls in Calcutta has been identified by Lord Walsingham as Tinea 

 23ellionella. The moth which has proved destructive to raw wool in the 

 Economic Section of the Indian Museum also appears to belong to this 

 species. 



A minute moth referred to in Vol. I, No. 2, of these Notes as destruc- 

 tive to the lentil plant [Ervum lens) in Patna has been determined by 

 Colonel Swinhoe as Laphygma exigua, Guer. {^Family, — Apamiid^e). 



The Microlepidopterous insect whose larvse were found by Mr. W. J. 

 Simmons boring into the stone of mango fruit in Calcutta^ and which 

 forms its pupa case in the ground, has been examined by Colonel 

 Swinhoe, who reports that it is a new species belonging to a new genus 

 allied to Maruca (Py rales, Margaronidse). 



The moth whose larva was found, by Dr. Prain feeding on orna- 

 mental oat plants in the Botanical Gardens in Calcutta, in January, has 

 been identified b}' Colonel Swinhoe as Leucania extranea = separata 

 (Noctues, Leucaniidse) ; vide Catalogue of the Moths of India, No, 1674. 



An Acridid received on 25th February 1889 from the Collector of 

 Murshidabad as destructive to crops in that district {vide page 1U7 of 

 Vol. I of these Notes) has been determined by Dr. Henri de Saussure as 

 a variety of Acridium succinctiim, St. 



Some Aerididse mentioned in Vol. I, No. 1, of these Note!>, where 

 they were said to be known as BJiunga or AnJcphutta , and to defoliate 

 sugarcane in Cawnpore, havCbeen determined by Dr. Henri de Saussure 

 as belonging to the species Oedalus marmoratns of Linnaeus, and Pcecilocera 

 liieroglyghica of King. 



A dipterous insect of the Family Tabanidse, forwarded by Mr. J. 

 Cleghorn as attacking cattle in Baluchistan, has been determined by 

 Mons. J. M. F. Bigot as belonging to the species C//?'j/50/j«5 f/u^a;-, Fabr., 

 which is said to be common throughout Southern Asia, 



