As more than one of these Limacodidce have been proved very 
destructive to Coffee, planters will do well to cause their destruc- 
tion if they appear even in small numbers. 
Castor-oil Caterpillars. 
From Kajang comes an account of a very destructive cater- 
pillar which attacked first the castor-oil plants which had been 
planted among the coffee bushes and which having eaten all the 
leaves off the castor-oil fell upon the coffee for want of some- 
thing else to eat. The caterpillars are about an inch and a half 
long, nearly smooth, with only a few scattered short hairs. The 
head is smooth and shining mahogany brown, the forelegs the 
same, the body dark blackish brown with lighter mottling over 
the back, theie are two yellow dots on the back just beyond the 
last pair of forelegs, and from the same position runs on each 
side an orange ochre line along the spiracles. On examining some 
castor-oil plants in the Botanic Gardens, I find what is evident- 
ly the same animal, but it is of rather a lighter colour, with a 
more distinct mottled grey dorsal band with a dark central line, 
the dots on the back white and the side stripe pale laterite red’ 
These caterpillars had eaten all the leaves off the castor-oil, and 
had attacked then some Clevodcfidrotis (C. fallcix), Gynuyci Ps 6 u~ 
dochina and other succulent weeds. These caterpillars pupated 
May 2 to 4, without making any cocoon. The chrysalises were 
nearly f inch long. The moths hatched out May 15th. Upper- 
wings nearly an inch long, light reddish brown faintly marbled 
with a dark brown sigmoid mark in the centre, a wavy line along 
the edge, edge crenate dentate, a line of black dots within the 
margin. Under wings dark grey, edge yellowish crenulate. Head 
and thorax light reddish brown, a blackish grey spot at the base 
body smoky grey, tail yellowish. Wings and body beneath pale 
reddish fawn, a row of black dots across the centre of the lower 
wings and one along the edge. It is apparently a species of 
Uphiusa near O. cuprea. 
Turmeric Moth. Dadessa evaxalis. 
The caterpillar of this moth inhabits the stems of several of 
the tuimei ics cultivated is spices. It is about f- of an inch lone 
smooth except for fine scattered hairs on back and sides, the head 
and first segment black, the body of a pale semi-transparent 
pinkish colour, with grey or black dots on warts down the back 
and a row just above the spiracles on each side, a pink line above 
the spiracles the whole length of the body. It makes a burrow 
in the leafy stem and can be detected by the exudation of the 
exci eta fi om holes m the stem and the withering of the leafv por- 
tion. The chrysalis is about an inch long and remains in the 
tunnel borea by the caterpillar. The moth is an inch across the 
wings entirely ochreous yellow above sprinkled all over with 
black spots an short streaks. The body is long and slender and 
the legs and antennae are long and delicate. On the underside 
the upper wings and a bar across the thorax are sooty. 
