No. L] Further Notes. 61 



In March 1887 specimens of Heliothis armigera were received from 

 Arrah, where the insect was said to be injurious to poppy. 3 887 some 

 caterpillars, doubtfully^ referred to this species, were received from Mr. J. 

 Cameron, of Bangalore, who writes that they live chiefly on pulse crops, 

 and especially on Dolichos lablab, A single caterpillar, also doubtfully 

 referred to this species, was received in January 1888 from Mr. R. Rainey, 

 of Kulna, who reported the insect as having been injurious to paddy. 

 The Museum contains specimen of the moth which have been obtained 

 rom several localities in India, and the species has been recorded ^ as 

 occurriug in Ceylon, Europe, Africa, America, Jamaica and New Zealand. 



In America it is known as the '^ Bollworm,*" and has proved most 

 destructive to cotton, Indian corn, leguminosse, and many other plants. 

 A most complete account of it was given by Dr. Riley in the fourth 

 report of tbe United States Entomological Commission, p. 354 (1885). 

 In the case of the American insect. Dr. Riley notices that the eggs are 

 deposited all over the cotton plant, the larvae pupating in the ground 

 and generally hybernating in the pupa state, though generation after 

 generation is produced until the approach of tbe cold weather. Dr. 

 Riley recommends autumn ploughing for destroying the pupae, in 

 countries where there is frost ; the destruction of the moths by poisoned 

 sweets and lantern traps ; the destruction of the early broods of larvae, in 

 the restricted areas where they first appear, by hand-picking, or better by 

 Fyrethrum ; also the encouragement of insectivorous birds and poultry. 



Some specimens of the Noctuid moth Leucania loreyi were received 



in September 1888, from the Commissioner of 

 Leucania loreyi, oiii i i*'i ^ii-n 



oettlemenls and Agriculture, Lentrai Provinces, 



with the information that the caterpillar, which is known as haripok, has 



been doing great damage to the rice crop in the Sambalpur district, 



being reported to have caused a loss of about one-eighth of the crop in 



some places. 



This insect is allied to the cut worms (see p. 33), and has been 



reported from several parts of Northern India, as well as from Europe, 



but no details of its life history seem to have been yet recorded in India. 



Specimens of the larvae of a Psychid moth, which could not be deter- 

 mined precisely in the absence of the imago, were 

 received in June 1888 from Mr. O. C. V. Johnson 

 of Daladere, Ranchi, with the information that they appear chiefly in 

 November, and infest tea, s^l, and other plants : hand-picking, when 

 the insects appear, being adopted for clearing the tea bushes of the pest. 



* Mr. Cameron promises to try and rear the moth so that the identity of the South 

 Indian pest may be precisely determined. 



' See ** Catalogue of the Moths of India," Cotes and Swinhoc, p. 271. 



