178 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V. 



antennae, longer than the body ; the head black in the middle 

 yellow in front and behind ; the thorax yellow ; abdomen yellow 

 tipped with black above ; the legs yellow ; both the wings hyaline, 

 pale yellow, margined irregularly with fuscous ; the fore wing with 

 a large medial black spot stretching across the wing, a smaller spot 

 beyond it from the costa to the middle of the wing, with a smaller 

 one behind it on the inner margin. It is figured on plate vii, 

 fig. 2, female. The other Pimpla predator Fabr. var. has the 

 wings entirely hyaline, the body yellow, with lateral black spots 

 on the abdomen. It is figured on plate vii, fig. 3, male. This borer 

 is also attacked by 2 species of Hymenopterous parasites belonging 

 to the family Bethylid^. 



They have been pronounced by Mr. William H. Ashmead to be 

 new species and have been named by him Goniozus indicus and 

 Apanteles schpophagde. 



Plate xiv, fig. 2, shows a male imago ; 2 a, a female imago, 

 upper and under sides ;2 b, a female imago in its natural position 

 when at rest ; 2 d } the larva, side view, life size ; 2 e } male pupa ; 

 2 f female pupa ; 2 g, a bored cane stem with tunnel made by larva , 

 with a pupa in situ, and thirteen partitions separating the pupa 

 from the hole of exit ; 2 c, a batch of eggs laid on a sugarcane 

 leaf. 



6. Nonagria inferens, Walker. Family Noctuidae. Sub-order 

 Phalaense. Order Lepidoptera. Plate xii, Figs. 9, ? imago ; 9 a, 

 larva, lateral view ; 9 b, larva, dorsal view ; 9 c, pupa, ventral view. 



Leucania inferens, Walker, List Lep. Ins. British Museum, vol, ix, p. 105, n. 

 °5 (1856) ; Seramict inferens, Moore, Lep. Cey„ vol. iii, p. 8, pi. cxlv, fig. 3 (1884). 

 Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 447, n. 6 ; 1886, p. 441, n. 68 ; Butler, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 158, n. 55 ; Cotes and Swinhoe, Cat. Moths, India, 

 p. 261, n. 1654 (1887) ; Nonagria inferens, Hampson Fauna Brit. India, Moths, 

 vol. i ; p. 284, n. 1943, woodcut, n. 153, male, also head of female, (1894). 



Leucania proscripta, Walker, List Lep. Ins. British Museum, vol. ix, p. 106 

 n. 67 (1856) ; Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xviii, p. 190, 

 n. 55 (1886) ; Cotes and Swinhoe, Cat. Moths India, p. 261, n. 1655 (1887). 



Seramia fratema, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, p. 103 (1879); Cotes 

 and Swinhoe, Cat. Moths, India, p. 261, n. 1653 (1887). 



I reprint the original descriptions of this species by Mr. Francis 

 Walker, Dr. F. Moore and Sir George Hampson, and those of the 

 two synonymic names it has received from Mr. Walker and 

 Dr. Frederic Moore. 



Leucania inferens, Walker. Habitat : Ceylon. Description : 

 " Pale bright fawn-colour; abdomen whitish-testaceous, much paler 



