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Indian Museum Notes. 



[Vol. IV. 



The insects are apparently the larvse of the Noctues moth, 

 Heliothis armigera, Hubn., which has previously been reported as 

 destructive to crops in all parts of India, and in many other parts 

 of the vi'orld. 



Accounts of it may be found in Indian Museum Notes, Vol. I, 

 pp. 97 and 109, pi. VI, fig. 4 ; and Vol. II, pp. 24, 27 and 160. 



/. Leucania itnipiinctaf Haw. 

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



JOWARI PEST. 



Leucania unipuncta. Haw., Lep.Brit., p. 174 (1803). 



„ extranea, Guen. Noct. i, p. 77, No. 104 ; C. and S. No. 1674. 



Specimens of a moth, reared from caterpillars w^hicli are said to 

 have done an enormous amount of damage to jowari crops in the 

 district of Poona, have been received in the Indian Museum from the 

 Assistant Superintendent of the Poona Farm in September 1897. 



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The following is an extract from the report furnished by 

 Mr. J. Mollison, Deputy Director of Agriculture : — 



" The caterpillars when they are in large numbers and when hard pressed for 

 food, take to almost any crop. They apparently prefer jowari and strip the leaves 



