No. 4..] Notes on Insect pests from the Entomo logical Section, 180 



NOTES ON INSECT-PESTS FROM THE ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SECTION, INDIAN MUSEUM : 



By E. Barlow, Assistant in charge of Entomology. 



I. TEA PESTS, 

 t. Euproctis latifascia, Walker. 



(Sub-ord. Heterocera, Fam. LymantriidEe.) 

 Plate XiV, Jig. I, — a, larva; b, and c, moths $ & %, 



Euproctis lacti fascia, Wlk. Cat. IV, p. 831 ; C. and S. No. 945 

 U&m'g. Faun.B, Ind. Bur. and Ceyl. mofhsA.-p, 472. 

 No. 1056. 

 „ antica, Wlk. Cat. IV, p. 835; C. and S. No. 933. 



postica, Wlk. Cat. XXXII, p. 348 ; C. and S. No. 950. 



„ abdominalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 398 ; Butt. lU. 

 Net. VII, pi. 123, figs. 4, 5. 



In March 1897, from Messrs. Andrew Yule & Co., were received 

 some living specimens of a caterpillar which had been doing a great 

 deal of damage to tea plants in the Darjeeling district. The 

 caterpillars were said to be in millions and to be quite stripping the 

 bushes of their old leaves. 



The caterpillars forwarded were evidently full-grown specimens, as 

 immediately on their arrival in the Museum, when transferred to a 

 rearing cage, they began to transform themselves into chrysalids. 

 The moths which emerged after about twelve days, were identified 

 as belonging to the species Euproctis latifascia of Walker, who 

 describes the female as follows : — 



White. Antennae with testaceous branches. Abdomen brown, 

 white at the base, luteous at the tip. Length of the body 6 lines ; of 

 the wings 20 lines. 



/;r«3.— 'Nepaul. 



According to Sir G. F, Hampsoo, the species is identical with 

 Walker's Euproctis antica and E. postica, and Moore's E. 

 abdominalis, which have been described thus : — 



Euproctis antica, Wlk. ^ and ?. White, head, palpi, fore part 

 of the thorax and fore legs luteous in the male, testaceous in the 

 female. 



