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Attacus atlas, feeds in Sikkim on a species of wormwood {Teucrium 

 macrospachyum) which grows abundantly from an elevation of 6,000 feet 

 upwards. 



Attacus edwardsii, found in Sikkim at an elevation of from 6,000 to 

 7,000 feet. An annual ; the moth appears in the rains and hybernates 

 as a pupa. 



Attacus cynthia y common in Sikkim up to 5,000 feet elevation j 

 thought to be three-brooded ; hybernates as a pupa : food-plant Zoan- 

 thoxylum acantkopodium or Z. alatum. 



Actias selene, fairly common in Sikkim at an elevation of from 3,000 

 to 5,000 feet ; bivoltine ; the first set of moths appear in early si-ping, the 

 second in July and August; hybernates as a pupa; food-plant Zantlioxy- 

 htm acantkopodium or Z. alatum. 



Actias leto, found at low elevations only in Sikkim ; bivoltine ; the 

 moth appears in spring and again in autumn ; hybernates as a pupa ; 

 food-plant Turpinia pomifera. 



Antkercea frithii, common at low elevations in Sikkim; bivoltine; 

 moths appear in March and again in August ; hybernates as a pupa ; 

 feeds on Sal (Shorea robusta). 



Anthereea roylei, is found in Sikkim at low elevations up to 3,000 

 feet ; thought to be an annual ; moths appear in April ; food-plants Evodia 

 fraxinifolia and Daphniphyllum himalense. 



Binaca zuleica, feeds, in Sikkim, upon Actinodaphne sikkimensis and 

 Acer caudatum. 



Rkodia newara, found in Sikkim at elevations of from 4,000 to 7,000 

 feet; annual; the moth appears during the early part of November at 

 5,000 feet elevation, and somewhat sooner at higher elevations ; hyber- 

 nates in the egg state ; the larvae emerge early in the spring and finish 

 spinning their cocoons by the end of May. Food-plants, weeping willow 

 and wild walnut. 



Theophila bengalensis, found in Sikkim at an elevation of 2,000 feet : 

 moths appear in November ; cocoons have been found on an orange tree 

 overhung by Artocarpus chaplasha, which is the food-plant, the larvae 

 not feeding on oraDge. 



The following extract from the Annual Report, 1888-89, of the 

 Bisulphide of carbon Bhadgaon Experimental Farm has been furnished 

 .or Calandra oryzas. by the Revenue and Agricultural Department of 



the Government of India : — 



" In pursuance of Government Resolution" No. 6093, dated 9th September 1887, 

 Revenue Department, experiments were made to test the efficacy of C.S. 2 as a 

 preservative of grain from the attack of weevils, and upon which a separate report was 

 submitted in August last. The observations were continued this year. 



