No. 5.] Miscellaneous Notes. 



In August 1892 specimeos were forwarded to the Museum by the 

 Paddy stalk borer. Manager of the Hutwa Kaj, Saran, through 



the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, 

 Bengal, of a caterpillar known locally as chhu^ta which had proved 

 injurious to paddy. The specimens arrived in too poor a state of 

 preservation for precise determination, but they were either identical 

 with, or very closely allied to,'the paddy stalk borer ( Chilo sp. ) referred 

 to in these Notes, Vol. II, p. 19. 



Similar specimens were forwarded about the same date, by the 

 Acting Deputy Superintendent, Konkan Revenue Survey, through 

 the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Bombay, In this case the 

 insect was said to have appeared in the month of July and to have been 

 specially injurious in the neighbourhood of the coast. 



In September 1893 similar specimens were forwarded by the Director 

 of Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal, from the Orissa Division with 

 the information that they were known as Gundira and had been causing 

 damage to the standing paddy crops in the Tributary State of Killa 

 Nursinghpur. 



In the early part of October 1893 again, similar stem borers weie 

 forwarded through the same channel from the Dacca District. In this 

 case the insect was said to have been damaging the Aman crops in parts 

 of the Munshiguuj sub-division where some three or four hundred 

 bighas of land were affected. 



To enable the imago to be reared for specific identification a good large 

 supply of affected paddy stalks should be carefully cut and forwarded 

 to the Indian Museum by mail direct so that the insect may arrive 

 alive. 



Eoarmia sp. 



Moths reared from caterpillars found feeding upon Teak and 

 Eucalyptus trees in Dehra Dun were furnish- 

 ed by the Director of the Imperial Forest 

 School in October 1892. One of the specimens was found to be identical 

 with a moth in the Indian Museum collection determined by Colonel 

 Swinhoe as Boarmia trispinaria, Walker. It may be noticed that the 

 series presented so large a range of individual variation as to include 

 forms hitherto looked upon as distinct species in the same genus. These 

 will no doubt eventually have to be brought together as varieties of 

 some central type. 



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