i6 Indian Museum Notes, [Vol. IV« 



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



Phal. Att. Alcipkron, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 133, p. E. (1777). 



Hypsa Alctphron, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii, p. 292, 

 pi. 13, fig. 6, 6a. 



Noctua Caries, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii, p. 27 (1793) ; Donovan, 

 Ins. N. Holl., pi. 39, f. 2. 



Hypocrita v. Caricas^ Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett., i, pi. 191, 

 fig. I — 4 (1806). 



Damahs Caricds^ Hiibner, Verz. bek, Schmett., p. 172. 



Hypsa {Damalis) Caries, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii, 

 p. 454. 



Fore wing ochreous greyish-brown, veins ochreous-white ; base 

 of wing ochreous-yellow, and marked by five small black spots, two 

 being on the costa and three below them ; an ochreous-white spot 

 at lower end of the cell ; hind wing ochreous-yellow, with a black 

 spot at end of the cell, two discal spots beyond, and a more or less 

 perfect outer discal series decreasing to anal angle. Body ochreous- 

 yellow ; a black spot on tegulae, and a slight spot at juncture with 

 base of the wing; a more or less dorsal and lateral row of spots on 

 abdomen; tip of first and second joints and entire third joint of 

 palpi black ; legs with black bands. 



Expanse 2 to 2| inches. 



Larva cylindrical; each segment with a few very slender scat- 

 tered hairs. Black above, brownish beneath ; two longitudinal white 

 dorsal bands, a small ocellus on each segment, and lateral black 

 spots; head red; front legs black; middle and hind legs reddish- 

 brown. Pupa dark reddish-brown. 



HYMENIA RECURVALIS, Fabr. 

 Plate II, Fig. 5, a moth, b chrysalid. 



Specimens of a Pyralid caterpillar said to be destructive to 

 " Choulai sag " [Amarantus mangostanus, Linn.) were brought 

 under notice through one of the Museum collectors, who found 

 them in a garden situated in the suburbs of Calcutta, 



The finding of this insect is of some interest, as the plant, 

 >Yhich is occasionally cultivated in the plains of Bengal, is eaten as 

 a " pot herb " by almost all classes of natives in India, but more ex- 

 tensively among the poor. 



The caterpillars pupated on the day of their arrival (the 12th 

 of June 1894), the chrysalis being formed within an outer covering 



