No. 1- ] Miscellaneous Notes. 13 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 



FROM THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, BY 

 MR. EDWARD BARLOW. 



MARUCA TESTULALIS, Geyer. 

 Plate II, Fig. /, a moth, b chrysalid, c caterpillar. 



On the 4th December 1894 specimens of Asiatic bean {Dolichos 

 lablab) from the Calcutta bazar, bored by caterpillars, were received 

 in the Indian Museum. Some of the affected pods that were split 

 open for examination contained young caterpillars, each pod harbour- 

 ing but one insect. The colour of the caterpillars in this stage was 

 of a light pinkish-brown with semi-transparent hairless bodies. 



On the 8th idem all the larvae appeared to be full fed, and 

 changing their colour into a light pea-green hue, left their respective 

 pods and began to pupate on the side of the breeding cage, making 

 for themselves flimsy cocoons of glistening white silk. 



The moths, which emerged after eight days' incubation, proved to 

 be identical with the species Maruca testulalis^ Geyer. 



The following is Mr. F. Moore^s description of the above : — 



Crochiphora testulalis, (Hiibner) Geyer, Zutrage Samml. Exot. 

 Schmett., iv. 12, 315, fig. 629-30 (1832). 



Stenia testulalis^ Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 247 ; Walker, Catal, 

 Lep. Het. B. M. xvii, p. 420. 



Siriocauta testulalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii^, 

 p. 424; Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 299; Snellen, 

 Tijd, voor Ent. 1884, p, 39. 



Hydrocampa aquatilts, Boisduval, in Guerin-Meneville's Icon. 

 Reg. Anim. Ins. pi. 90, fig. 9 (1844). 



Maruca aquatilis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii, p. 540 



(1859). 



Fore wing ochreous-brown, clouded with darker brown; a trans- 

 verse discal black-bordered hyaline-white band extending from 

 costal vein to lower median, a similar white oblique pyriform spot 

 within the cell, and a punctiform spot below its middle : hind wing 

 hyaline-white, with an irregular black-bordered ochreous-brown 

 marginal band. Cilia brown anteriorly, white posteriorly, with a 

 slender black inner line. Body ochreous-brown above ; palpi 

 ochreous-brown above, white beneath ; legs whitish with brown 

 bands. 



Expanse y% to i inch. 



The Indian Museum possesses specimens from Calcutta, Khan-f 

 dala, Kulu, Sibsagar, Dansiri, Ceylon. 



