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feed upon Coccidw. G-reen in Ceylon found E. coccidiphaga, Hmpsn., 
feeding upon mealy bugs ; in India E. amabilis, Mo. (Plate XXXVII, 
fig. 8), feeds upon the lac insect ( Tachardia lacca) and at least two other 
species, E. cretacea , Hmpsn. (Plate XXXVI, fig. 9), and E. coccidiphaga , 
Hmpsn., feed upon mealy bugs. The commonest species are E. olivacea, 
Wlk., the fore wing white with olive-green suffusion, whose larva bores 
in the green shoots of the brinjal ( Solanum melongena) and wild Solana- 
cecB ; E. rosita, G-u.en., ochreous with the outer half of the wing pink ; 
E. divisa , Mo., bright yellow with the outer half of the forewing bright 
pink ; E. hemirhoda, Wlk., differing from the last in its sub-marginal par¬ 
tial ochreous band, and E. abrupt a, Wlk., which is red-brown, its larva 
found upon fig trees. The common species which may be reared upon 
the cotton mealy bugs (Dactylopius nip ad) is an undescribed species. 
E. trifasciata, Mo., has been reared from caterpillars boring into the 
pods of a species of Rivea and E. parva, Hubn., from caterpillars feeding 
on Kakaronda ( Blumea balsamifera). 
Zagir a includes two common moths, in which the colour is dark but 
a broad light band crosses the thorax and occupies the costal half 
of each forewing. Z. irrecta, Wlk., in which the colour is red-brown 
and Z. divisa , Wlk., in which it is nearly black are both to be found in 
herbage in the plains. 
Hypeninoe (Dcltoidince ).—These moths are recognisable by the 
sickle-shaped palpi, curving up to ' the front of and over the head. 
Raparna includes R. digramma , Wlk., R. ochreipennis , Mo.; and R. 
imparata , Wlk. ; which are more or less common in the plains; de 
Niceville records finding R. nebulosa , Mo., in abundance on indigo 
in Chumparan and in fact stated it to be the commonest indigo 
caterpillar in the rains. As it is recorded only from Sikkim and 
Bhutan and has not since been found on indigo, this observation 
requires confirmation. 
(. Focillinw ). The palpi are sickle-shaped and long, or are porrect ; 
a frontal tuft is usually present in the latter case. Simplicia robustalis, 
G-uen., is a brown moth with the palpi curved over the head, the male 
antennae with a tuft of scales at the middle. It has been reared from 
a brown caterpillar which feeds on dry fallen sissoo leaves (Dalbergia 
sissu ) ; it is a semi-looper, pupating in a light cocoon among leaves or 
