No. 1.] Notes on insect pests from the Entomological Section. 23 



In the sample said to be affected by ' Mukra ' no insect was 

 discovered. 



The description of the moth Heliothis armigera is quoted below 

 as given by Sir G. F. Hampson in his Fauna of British India Series, 

 Volume II. 



Ochreous with a pale brown, olive, or red-brown tinge. Fore wing 

 with indistinct double-waved antemedial lines ; a dark speck represent-* 

 jng the orbicular ; an indistinct curved medial line ; the reniform in- 

 distinct ; postmedial and sub-marginal waved lines, the space between 

 them somewhat darker and with a series of pale or dark specks on the 

 nervules ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing white ; the 

 veins fuscous : a broad blackish outer border usually with a pale sub- 

 marginal central patch. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata conspicuously black ; a broad blackish band beyond 

 the postmedial line ; the apices of both wings and outer area of fore 

 wing pinkish. 



Larva. — Dorsal area pale brown ; a lateral whitish band ; ventral 

 area pale green : each segment with some black specks ; head red- 

 brown. Or green with a dark dorsal and two yellow lateral lines ; the 

 thoracic somites speckled brown and black, 5th to 10th somites with 

 lateral brown blotches, anal somite with an irregular black dorsaj 

 mark. 



Jtiab. — Universally distributed. Exp. 31 — 41 millim, 



