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LEPIDOPTERA. 
the wings slope on each side ; this inner area is ochreous, the outer grey 
irrorated with purplish and fuscous ; the larva is of the typical form 
and dirty white colour, pupating in a tough cocoon of white silk. 
Fig. 333— Webbing produced by larvje of galleria mellonella. 
Stenachroia elongella, Hmpsn., is found abundantly on occasion, 
the larvae webbing up the ears of Sorghum ( Andropogon sorghum) and 
Marua ( Eleiisine coracana) and destroying grain; they also bore in the 
stems. The attacked ears become deep purple-black from the excrement 
entangled in the webbing and the decayed grains. The moth is dry-grass 
colour with long narrow wings and superficially like the cane-borers of 
the genus Chilo. 
Crambince. Grass moths. 
Moths of moderate or small size, with porrect labial palpi, and tri¬ 
angularly scaled maxillary palpi. The larvae so far as known, live on or 
in the stems and roots of grasses. Cramhus is the large genus embrac¬ 
ing many species. Cramhus corticellus, Hmpsn., is a common brownish 
moth, found at light. None of the genus seem to have been reared in 
India, but they will probably be found to have the habits of what are 
called Sod Web Worms ” in America, i.e., to live in the soil at the 
roots of grasses, much as Polyocha saccharella does. 
Chilo simplex, Butl. (Plate XLVII, figs. 1, 4, 15, 16), is a widespread 
species in India, abundant in cultivated cane, juar, bajra and maize. 
