64 Indian 3Iusenm Notes, [Vol. III. 



the ground as possible and then destroying them. " If this were done/' 

 he adds, " as soon as the pest appeared, I think the damag'e done in any 

 season would be materially lessened, for it is successive crops of larvse 

 rather than numbers at one attack that are to be dreaded. Tiie two 

 moths I kept in captivity appeared to be very slug-gish, and incapable of 

 travelling any distance. If they really are so, in districts where much 

 cane is not grown, attacks from without would be uncommon and care 

 on the part of the individual cultivator should do much."" 



In August 1893 damage was again occasioned in the teak forests of 



Berar by caterpillars. The species most nu- 

 Teak defoliator. -. ^ i • -i •^ l 



merousiy represented in a somewhat hetero- 

 geneous set of caterpillars forwarded to the Museum through the Forest 

 Department from Elliohpur, was Hyllma 'pi!,era, Cramer, which would 

 seem to be a serious defoliator of teak. The eatejpillars were first 

 noticed on 7th June or nearly a month earlier than in the preceding year. 

 They attacked the young leaves which wt^-e then just beginning to 

 appear, but the extent of the damage does not seem to have been 

 recorded. 



A moth reared from a caterpillar found boring into brinjal fruit in 

 Faroda was forwarded to the Museum by 

 Mr. T, H. Middleton in January iH9«x It 

 proved to Itelong to the species Leucinodes orhonalis, Gueii., which has 

 previously been recorded in a similar connection in Bengal, see these' 

 Notes, Vol. Ill, p. 99. Together with the moth Mr. Middleton for- 

 warded a small Ichneumonid parasite which liad emerged from the pupa 

 of the same species. Jt proved to be unnamed in the Museum coUee- 

 lion. 



In July 1893 specimens were forwarded through the Director of the 

 Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun, of in- 

 Sal caterpillars. ^^^^^ reported to have attacked sal forest in 



the Pilibhit J)ivision. According to a report furnished by the local 

 forest officer the caterpillars were first noticed in the end of April over 

 an area which had been recently burnt. Later on they spread through- 

 out the entire area of the Pilibhit forests and stripped a large number of 

 trees of tlieir entire foliage, 'ihey seemed to be almost entirely con- 

 iined to sal trees. 



Amongst a somewhat miscellaneous set of insects forwarded to the 

 Museum were found numerous Noetuid like caterpillars which are likely 



