kry to the sub-families. 
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tobacco and tipari in the plains. The third is European and recorded 
from scattered localities in India. 
Adisura (Chariclea) marginalis, Wlk., is a pretty pink and yellow 
moth common in the plains. A. atcinsoni, Mo., is also common, but has 
apparently not been reared. The genus Agrotis as it stands in the Fauna 
of India is now divided on structural characters, the majority falling into 
Agrotis and Euxoa. The former includes A. ypsilon , Rott., the “ Uni¬ 
versal Greasy Cutworm ” and the very common A. flammatra, Fabr. 
Both species have a curious habit of hiding in sheltered spots in houses 
in the cold weather, and the latter especially is found in thatched roofs. 
In March the moths emerge, and when my office was in a thatched barn, 
living flammatra moths used to fall out of the thatch, tightly wrapped 
in a clothing of spiders’ web ; apparently the moths hibernated there, 
were spun up by spiders, woke up in March and in struggling to escape 
fell out of the thatch. Agrotis c-nigrum, Linn., and A. descript a, Brem., 
also breed in the plains but rarely. (Plate XXXIV, figs. 10, 11.) 
Euxoa includes E. segetis, Sch. ( suffusa ), E. corticea , Schiff., and 
E. spinifera, Roth. ( biconica), with other less common species. The larvae 
of these behave as Surface Caterpillars, just as the larva of A. ypsilon Rott., 
does; all are figured in the Agricultural Journal, Vol. II, p. 42, and in 
Memoirs of the Agric. Dept., Entom., Vol. I, No. 2. 
Hadenince .—Hampson lists 946 species in the world of which over 
120 are “ Indian. ” Nearly all of these are species occurring in Central 
and Northern Asia, which extend into the Himalayas and rarely into 
the Khasis. A few are peculiar to India and Ceylon, while a few range 
over the Indo-Malayan or Indian and Indo-Chinese area. Glottula 
dominica, Cram., is a dull brown moth, the forewing with a series of 
sub-marginal lunules, the hindwing white. The larva bores into the 
fleshy leaves of lilies and is black, thickset and warty, spotted with 
white, the head, legs and two ends of the body marked with red. It is 
a conspicuous insect with apparently warning colouring. Polytela 
gloriosce , F., has a somewhat similar larva, but smooth, and slightly 
differently marked. It feeds upon the leaves of Amaryllids and the 
moth is blue-black, with orange specks, the hindwing alone fuscous, 
with orange cilia. It is a pretty and striking insect with more beauty 
than most of its family. (Plate XXXIV, fig. 12.) 
