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M/scdJaneons Notet. 



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The first set of caterpillars that were forwarded to the Museum were 

 iosufficient for precise determination, but from specimens of the imago 

 afterwards reared from caterpillars from Cachar, received on the 23rd 

 February, the insect was identified as belonging to the species Andraca 

 Iriloehoides, Moore (=A. hipunct;ita, Walker) as given by Hampson. The 

 pupa was found to be enclosed in a rough hairy cocoon attached to the 

 twigs. 



The bushes attacked were not situated in blocks, but were scattered 

 about amongst the tea ; they were often completely denuded of leaves. 

 The extent of the damage may be judged from the fact that upon one 

 garden alone, during tbe six months ending May 1893, it was found 

 worth while to spend some fifteen hundred rupees in picking the insects 

 off the bushes. The result in this case was the destruction of no less 

 than sixty-nine and a half maunds weight of caterpillars, 



Chrysalids of the same species wei-e afterwards forwarded to the 

 Museum in September 1893 through the office of the Assistant Commis- 

 sioner of Jorhat, from one of the tea gardens in that district. A moth 

 emerged in the following month in the Museum, showing that the 

 development of the insect goes on at such different seasons of the year 

 as the rains and the cold weather. 



A specimen of this cosmopolitan species was forwarded to the 

 Museum in November 1893 through Mr. L. de 

 littoralis, ;^jce,,ii]e f.^^ jjerr Hofrath, Dr. L. Martin of 

 Sumatra. The insect was said to have proved ter- 



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ribly destructive to young tobacco plants in the nurseries of North-East 

 Sumatra. The species has been previously reported as injuring mulberry 

 bushes in India. See these Notes, Vol. II, p. 160. The woodcut shows 

 larva, pupa, and imago, all natural ize of a variety of the same species 

 reared in the Museum from caterpillars found tunnelling into the 

 developing shoot of a large lily plant in Calcutta. 



