ITie Tea insects of India. 



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The chief points in connection with the insect which remain to be 

 ascertained are the number of g-enerations in the year and the periods 

 passed in the varioas stages of deveh)pment. 



Eumeta sikkima, Moore. A very complete and interest inj^ 

 account ( f this insect has been given in the pages of Indian Jl/m^eum 

 Fokshy Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, who found the caterpillars very generally 

 upon sal and less often upon tea in the Darjiling- di.4rict. 



The figiilv, tt'hieh has bCGn taluil ffom spcCiu Sns preseuletl to llie' 

 Indian Museum by Mr. Dudgeon, shows* — (I) the male moth j (2) thy 

 degraded wingless female as she appears when taken out of thef iJase j 

 (•'5) the larval case ill which the female passes her existerlce ; (4) the larva! 

 case of the male, with pupal skin protruding from which thd male motli 

 has emerged. The figures are all natural size. 



The following is an extract from Mri Dudgton's paper f — 



" The liirtie emerge about the Ist of April f jOm eggs laid at tlie beginning ol 

 !March in the same year. Tbis is the first i))Ood of the year, but the olbefs do not 

 follow in any regularity, and it has been impossible for me to ascertain bow mam- 

 broods there iuc, as the larvse and pnpre are found in all stages throughout the rainss. 

 LarvaB when first enserged are about olic-sixtcenth of an inch in leiiirth. Colour 



