64 ' Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. IV. 



Notarcha muUilt'nealis, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc, London, 1884, 



p. 312. 

 Synclera multilinealis^ Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 315 (1886). 



Very pale olivaceous-yellow, opalescent in some lights : fore- 

 wing with some olive-brown basal spots and streaks, a transverse 

 curved antemedial line, an irregular postmedial denticulated line, 

 and a submarginal denticulated line ; an oval orbicular and reinform 

 mark, and a mark below the cell; hindwing with two irregular discal, 

 and a submarginal denticulated line, a mark at end of the cell, below 

 which is a short streak, a marginal line and an interciliary line olive- 

 brown. Thorax with olive-brown spots, abdomen with paler bands, 

 and a penultimate black spot ; palpi and legs whitish ; palpi and fore- 

 legs with brown bands. 

 Expanse -^-^ to iy\^ inch. 



4. Meliothis armigera, Hubn. 



Examples, which proved to be the larvae and chrysalids of the 

 well-known destructive Noctues moth {Heliothis armigera, Hiibn.) 

 have been received in the Indian Museum from the undermentioned 

 officers, as affecting agricultural crops during the year 1895, 



[a) Destructive to gram crops in Dehra Dun, forwarded in 

 April 1895 by Mr. W. F. Dobbie, who wrote : — 



" We had beautiful gram crops here this ' Rabi ;' but they have been spoilt 

 by caterpillars. They make a hole in the pod, eat the gram seeds, and then come 

 out of the pod leaving it perfect, with the exception of the one hole. " 



{b) Damaging gram plants in Chhindwara District, forwarded by 

 the Settlement Officer, Chhindwara, who reported in March 1895 : — 



" I forward by parcel post the chrysalids of a caterpillar commonly found in 

 this district on ordinary gram plants. The caterpillar is green and smooth, 

 bodied. A brown variety is also found. It feeds by day, and its appearance in 

 numbers is associated with cloudy weather. '* 



(c) Reported to cause damage to paddy crops in the Malabar 

 District : forwarded through the Superintendent, Government 

 Museum, Madras, from the Collector of Malabar, in July 1895. 



Remedies for this pest were recommended in Indian Museum 

 Notes, Vol. I. pp. 50 and 97, but no reports as to the results of these 

 recommendations have been received. 



