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the "China-trees" {Melia azedarach) at Braidentown, Flo., and 

 many trees were said to have been apparently killed by it. From 

 what we know of the species it must be considered a very injurious 

 one. From the above list of food-plants it will be seen that the 

 insect has been known to attack cotton plants, and should it become 

 established in the cotton fields of our southern States it might prove 

 a serious pest/' (Cooley y I.e.) 



Plate xvii, fig. 2, is taken from an adult female of Chionaspis 

 {Hemichionaspis) minor, Maskell, from Calcutta, and shows the 

 margin of the extremity of the pygidium. Mr. E, Ernest Green has 

 kindly supplied this drawing. 



The coccid is attacked by the larva of a lady-bird beetle (family 

 Coccinellidse, Order Coleoptera) in Calcutta, a greatly enlarged 

 drawing of the beetle is shown in plate ix, fig, 2 ; and on figs. 2 a and 

 2 b are shown the much enlarged larva of the same. The beetle 

 stands in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, as Chilocorus 

 nigrita, Fabricius. 



On Erythrina indica, Lamk. Natural Order Leguminosce. 



1. Agathodes ostentalis, Hiibner. Sub-family Pyraustinse. Family 

 Pyralidas. Sub-order Phal&nze. Order Lepidoptera. 



Caterpillars found feeding on Erythrina indica, Lamk., Natural 

 Order Leguminosds y a tree commonly used for shade and for hedges 

 in Calcutta, were reared in the Museum. On emerging they proved 

 to be the pyralid moth, Agathodes ostentalis, Hiibner, given by Sir 

 George Hampson in "The Fauna of British India: Moths," vol. 

 iv, p. 345, n. 5,005, fig. 190, male (1896), as found throughout 

 India, Ceylon and Burma, the Andaman Isles, Java, Sambawa. 

 It may be noted that in life those parts of the moth described by Sir 

 George Hampson as "pale fawn-colour'' are really olive-green fad- 

 ing to yellowish-green along the costa and inner margin. 



2. Eupterote undata, Blanchard. Family Eupterotidae. Sub-order 

 Phalsenae. Order Lepidoptera. 



Caterpillar found feeding on Erythrina indica, Lamk, in Cal- 

 cutta ; the moth bred in June. The larva is gregarious, and assem- 

 bles in large numbers on the underside of the leaves of its food-plant 

 when not feeding. Half-grown larvae were found in August, these 

 pupated in November, and emerged in June, so that there is probably 

 only one brood of this species in Calcutta. Sir George Hampson 

 gives twenty-six synomyms for this very variable moth, which is found 



