pyralim:. 
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The life-history has been fully described in the Agricultural Journal oj 
India , Vol I, p. 97, 1906, and III, p. 104, 1908. This species ranges 
over the whole of the plains from the extreme north to the extreme 
south; with it is Chilo auricilia, Ddgn., a species described from Behar, 
and found also in other localities in Bengal and Madras. The 
character of the male antennse, the metallic markings on the forewing 
and the white edges to the marginal black spots distinguish this 
species, whose life-history is apparently identical with that of C. 
simplex. The genus requires revision. 
One of the commonest moths of the plains is a small dry-grass 
coloured one, with silvery fasciae and black streaks on the wing, which 
comes readily to light. This is Ancylolomia chrysographella, Zell., 
whose larva lives in rolled rice and grass leaves. The larva of A. 
locupletella, Kolb, is said to bore in the stems of Spinifex squarrosa. 
Schcenohiince. —A small sub-family in which the proboscis is minute 
or absent, the palpi usually porrect. The larvae bore in the stems of 
grasses. Scirpophaga auriflua, Zell. (Plate XLVII, figs. 2, 5, 10, 14, 
17), with its variety intacta, Snell, and 
S. monostigma, Zell, are borers in munj 
grass (Saccharum ciliare), which also 
attack cultivated sugarcane. The eggs 
are laid in clusters covered by the hair 
from the anal tuft of the moth. The 
larval habits are peculiar, the cater¬ 
pillar always tunnelling down through 
the apical bud and when full fed, 
making cross partitions across the 
tunnel before pupation. The life-his¬ 
tory is described in Indian Insect 
Pests (p. 130), and Agric. Journ., 
India, III, No. 2. The different species 
are readily distinguished. S. auriflua 
is white with a buff anal tuft in the 
female ; its variety intacta has the anal 
Fig. 339—Schcenobius bifunc- tuft red outside; S. monostigma has a 
TIFER EGG MASS. X 3. 
single black spot on each lorewing. 
