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ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; palpi blackish, white below : 

 anal tuft striped with white. Fore wing with the costal and outer 

 areas most suffused with brown ; indistinct oblique subbasal and 

 antemedial lines ; two dark specks on the disco-cellular nervules ; a 

 fine oblique postmedial line excurved between veins 6 and 2, and 

 with a diffused curved line beyond it. Hind wing with antemedial 

 and medial oblique lines almost meeting at the anal angle ; a post- 

 medial line from the costa to vein 2, sometimes almost connected with 

 the medial line ; the outer area suffused with brown. Both wings 

 with a dark marginal line and a line through the cilia, which are pale. 

 Habitat: Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 

 Expanse 22 millim. In the Museum collection are two bad specimens 

 from Kulu in the Western Himalayas. 



I found the larva of this moth quite common at Seeraha, Cham- 

 paran, Behar, Bengal, in August, 1901. It is a little under an inch 

 in length when full grown, almost transparent, either pale ochreous 

 (rarely) or glassy green (more commonly) in colour, cylindrical, very 

 attenuated for its length, with the usual three pairs of thoracic legs, 

 four pairs of abdominal legs on the 7th — loth segments and anal 

 pair of claspers. The head is ochreous, the mouth parts dark brown ; 

 the body bears a few sparse black bristles ; there is a dark, not very 

 prominent, interrupted, dorsal pulsating line (the heart) ; each segment 

 bears anteriorly a large oval spot defined outwardly by a narrow 

 black line bearing two small round black spots with a central bristle 

 one at each end of the length of the oval, behind which are two 

 similar round separated spots, one on each side of the dorsal line 

 of the animal each bearing a black bristle ; the under surface and legs 

 of the larva are pale yellowish green. The pupa is pale brown, 

 darker above than below, narrow, the head rounded, the thorax 

 straight (not humped), the abdominal segments narrow and ending in 

 a fine point. 



The larva feeds on the inner surface of the leaves of the maize 

 plants, only eating the parenchyma of the leaf, never making a hole 

 through the leaf. It rolls up one edge, fastens it down with strands of 

 silk, and lives inside this shelter. The eaten surface of a leaf is 

 white, and the larva eats the leaf in long lines which often form 

 white patches. The pupa is formed in a slight cocoon in a rolled up 

 leaf. As a pest this larva at Seeraha seemed to do but little damage, 

 but under favourable conditions it is probable that it might prove to 

 be a dangerous pest by destroying all the leaves of the plant. The 

 larva is very active when disturbed, running backwards and forwards 

 equally rapidly, and dropping to the ground by a thread of silk. The 

 pupa! stage lasts about a fortnight. Probablv after the "makai " is 



