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The following is Mr. Moore's description of the moth, larva and 

 p-upa: 



Moth <J and ? : forewing dark sap green, with a broad basal 

 whitish blue-bordered band, crossed by a blackish-green streak ; a 

 discal zigzag series of yellowish spots, and a larger spot at end of the 

 cell : hindwing with the base and a broad outer band black, the veins 

 and marginal border steel-blue ; a series of yellowish spots before the 

 apex, which are indistinct in the male ; middle band pale yellow. 

 Thorax and base of abdomen in male steel-blue, lower part of abdo- 

 men yellow, tip black, antennae black, shaft steel-blue. Underside as 

 above, veins blue lined. 



Expanse, £2, ? 2\ inches. 



Larva short, thick, anterior segments broadest, head small ; 

 ochreous-brown, the segments with six or seven rows of black tipped 

 tubercles, from which spring two or three short black hairs. 



Pupa pale ochreous-yellow beneath, pinkish and spotted above, in 

 a narrow dense pale ochreous cocoon. 



For an illustration of the moth, larva, and cocoon, see Indian 

 Museum Notes, Vol. IV, No. V, plate XVIII, fig. 2, a— b. 



Insect affecting coffee leaf. — In June 1898 Mr. W. M. Daly for- 

 warded to the Indian Museum specimen of a coffee leaf said to be 

 infested with insects from the Dalur Estate, Kadur. 



The insects proved to be the eggs of an Orthopterous insect, 

 belonging to the family Locustidae (Long horned grasshoppers), which 

 usually lay their eggs in neat rows upon leaves and branches upon 

 which they live and feed. The eggs are oval in shape and each over- 

 laps its neighbour slightly. 



The eggs were apparently alive when they arrived in the Museum, 

 but all efforts to rear them artificially for conclusive identification 

 proved unsuccessful. 



