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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Schcenobius bipunctifer, Wlk., is a moth of similar appearance, but 
the female of a dull ochreous yellow colour with a single black spot on 
each forewing, the male brownish ochreous and smaller. It is a very 
common insect in the plains and comes readily to light. The eggs are 
also laid in hair-covered masses. The white larva has been reared from 
the stems of rice in Bengal and Madras. Probably it breeds also in other 
grasses as it is often abundant. A 'full account is being published 
elsewhere. 
CirrJiochrista brizoalis , Wlk., was reared from small greyish cater¬ 
pillars found under the bark of a forest tree ; the full-grown larvse pupat¬ 
ed between two pieces of bark bound together with silk. The moth is 
white with a fulvous (red-brown) edge to the forewing. 
Anerastiince. —A small sub-family, distinguished by the venation; the 
larvae feed on grass roots below the surface of the soil or bore in grass 
stems. Anerastia ablutella, Zell. (Plate XLVII, figs. 8, 11), was reared 
from sugarcane by Mr. Mackenzie in Behar ; the larva is light green and 
is active only for a short time in the year, hibernating from May to 
February (See Agric. Journ. India, III, No. 2). 
Polyocha saccharella, Ddgn. (Plate XLVII, figs. 7, 12, 19), was also 
described from specimens reared by Mr. Mackenzie from cane. The 
larva is white and bores in the cane below ground (Agric. Journ., India, 
III, No. 2). Polyocha cinerella, Hmpsn., was reared from larvae boring 
in the fleshy tissues of Sip (Euphorbia neriifolia.) 
Phycitincp. —The proboscis well developed, the moths commonly 
with narrow wings, rolled tightly round the body when at rest. With 
some of the last sub-family these constitute the so-called £ ‘ Knot horns ”, 
the male antennae being often dilated near, the base. The larvae are 
often borers in plants. 
Ephestia is familiar throughout the world, the larvae of some being 
injurious to stored flour and the like. E. cahiritella, Zell., and E. cautella , 
Wlk., feed in rice and in wheat flour in India, the larvae producing abun¬ 
dant silk with which they form galleries of webbing in and on their food. 
They represent the notorious Mediterranean flour moth, E, kuhniella , 
which is so destructive in America. The larva of E. cautella, Wlk., is 
recorded by Zehntner as feeding on a scale insect (Ceratovacuna) in 
