132 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V. 



notches on the vertex ; the first segment with a dorsal, shining, dark 

 brown plate, its surface irregular ; an orange patch below the plate 

 on each side ; the third segment irregularly blotched with orange, 

 the remaining segments irregularly blotched with pale greenish on 

 the dorsal line, and with dark brown and orange laterally ; all the 

 segments bearing a few low tubercles each with a short bristle ; the 

 spiracles black, oval, prominent. The pupa is '5 of an inch in 

 length, moth, dark brown above, gradually fading into pale green 

 beneath; the head rather square ; the thorax and abdomen cylindrical, 

 the latter tapering rather rapidly to a point. 



2. Sylepta multilinealis, Guenee. Family Pyralidse. Sub-order 

 Phalsense. Order Lepidoptera, Plate xiv, figs. 40, larva ; 4b, pupa' 

 case after the moth has emerged '; 4, imago — all x 2. 



The larva of this moth was found in Calcutta in July and August 

 1901, feeding on the leaves of the Bhindi plant, and was bred in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. Further particulars regarding this moth 

 will be found on page 182, under Gossypium sp., the Cotton-plant. 

 A hymenopterous parasite was bred from one of the larvae, which 

 appears to be the same species as attacks the larva of Scirpophaga 

 auriflua, Zeller, Family Crambidse, at Sikta, Betteah, Champaran, 

 Bengal, one of the sugarcane borers. See page 177. 



On Pisum sativum, Linn. Natural Order Leguminosce, 



The garden pea. 



1. Heliothis armigera, Hiibner. Family Noctuidae. Sub-order 

 Plaldenx. Ordex Lepidoptera. 



The larva of the common cut-worm moth, Heliothis armigera } 

 Hubner, has been found in Calcutta feeding on the pods of the 

 garden pea in February. This omnivorous insect has been referred 

 to constantly in " Indian Museum Notes," and is described and 

 figured in vol. i, p. 97, n. 8, pi. vi, figs. 40, imago; 46, pupa , and 

 4c, larva (1889). 



On Trichosanthes disica. Roxb. Natural Ordet Cucurbitacece. 



The pulwal or patal. 



On Cucurbita maxima, Duchesne. Natural Order Cucurbitaceae. 

 The common gourd, squash, or red gourd; vernacular name Belati' 

 Kcmra or Meta [sweetj Komra. 



