82 REPORT ON THE PADI-BORER. 
a small projection which is produced into four sharp teeth, the 
two lower ones pointing dow nwards and the upper ones back- 
wards. 
Length 8th inch, and diameter nearly =4,th inch. 
Lmago.— Above, anterior wings pale yellowish-brown, with 
a violet-brown stripe from insertion of wing to about the mid- 
dle of the posterior margin, along the median nervure. This 
stripe broadens towards the posterior margin, which is shaded 
with the same colour. A distant series of five small brown 
sub-marginal spots along the posterior margin, and a spot near 
median nervure opposite end of cell. Tinge shining pale 
golden brown. 
Posterior wings silvery white slightly tinted with yellow. | 
Beneath, pale silvery yellowish brown: hind wings paler 
than the anterior ones. 
Head much depressed, eyes dark brown, invisible from 
above, thorax clothed with long hairs, ochraceous towards 
neck and paler towards abdomen. ‘Thorax beneath densely 
clothed with long hair, as are also the two upper joints of the 
legs. Antenne one quarter the length of costal margin, fili- 
form, yellowish-brown, clothed with a few short hairs. Labial 
palpi short, scarcely projecting beyond face. Last joint short 
and clothed with close, short scales. The scales on the re- 
mainder of palpi bushy, some dark ones mixed with the paler. 
Expanse of wings 12th inch, length ;&th inch. 
This moth appears to have the same habits as the other 
species ; but itis not nearly so numerous in the Larut padi 
fields. I have only met with two examples out of the many 
borers I have raised, though possibly in other parts of the 
country it may be the more plentiful and destructive of 
the two. 
It does not seem to remain in the chrysalis longer than the 
other, nor is its life in the perfect state any more extended, so 
that any measures that would be efficacious in preventing the 
spread of the one would be equally applicable to the other. 
L. Wee 
