1 58 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V. 



pairs of thoracic, four pairs of abdominal on 7th — 10th segments 

 and one anal pair. Head ochreous, the face with a reversed V-shaped ; 

 marking, white, enclosing a black triangular marking, the body 

 extremely hairy, general coloration blackish or dark grey dorsally> 

 greyish-white laterally ; a dorsal interrupted whitish line, each seg- 

 ment furnished with numerous tubercles bearing long grey-black 

 hairs ; the under-surface pale. Pupa formed in a slight silken cocoon 

 mixed with the hairs from the body of the larva, the cocoon spun 

 up in the leaves of the food-plant; stumpy, i.e., short and stout^ 

 shining brown in colour, smooth, without markings, the head blunt 

 and rounded, the thorax slightly humped, the anal segment bluntly 

 pointed. 



I do not think this insect is ever likely to become a serious pest. 



8. Heliothis armigera, Hubner. Sub-family Trifime. Family 

 Noctuidse. Sub-order Phalange. Order Lepidoptera. 



This common and widely distributed pest was found in consider- 

 able numbers feeding in the larval state on the leaves of indigo- 

 Further references to it will be found under Pisum sativum, Linn., 

 at page 132. It might prove to be a very formidable pest to indigo 

 under favourable conditions. 



g. Prodenia littoralis, Boisduval. Sub-family Trifinas. Family 

 Noctuidas. Sub-order Phalaenae. Order Lepidoptera. 



Further notes on this common pest will be found on page 131 under 

 Brassica (Eubrassica) oleacea botrytis, the cauliflower. It has been 

 given six synonymic names, Prodenia ciligira and testaceoides by 

 Guenee, P. glaucistriga, subterminalis and declinata by Walker 

 and Neuria retina by Freyer. The larva when full grown is i*6 

 inches in length. With three pairs of thoracic legs, four pairs of pro. 

 or abdominal legs on the 7th — 10th segments and a pair of anal 

 claspers. Cylindrical, stout, smooth, without protuberances, and 

 hairless ; general coloration exceedingly variable, of several shadesj 

 of green from very pale to very dark, and of various shades of brown 

 there is in the dark examples a pale reddish dorsal line, and in all 

 a subdorsal or supra-lateral pale line, anterior to the latter and 

 almost touching it is a series of linear black spots, one on each 

 segment on each side ; the spiracles prominent, surrounded by 

 black, white, and ferruginous markings ; posterior to the spiracles is 

 a pale bandj very prominent in the dark coloured specimens; the 

 lower surface and legs always pale; head dark, with a prominent 

 reversed V-shaped white marking, with its apex in front. Pupa 

 shining, smooth, broad, broadest in front, tapering gradually to the 

 sharp anal segment, the head rounded ; the thorax very slightly 

 humped ; no markings whatever. 



