Argina cribraria Clerck.

Swezey, O. H., 1946, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 163-185 : 164

1. Argina cribraria Clerck.

Ph (alaena) cribraria Clerck, Icon. Ins.. 2: pl. 54, fig. 4, 1764.

Argina cribraria, Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths 2: 51, fig. 24, 1894.

Sasa, June 20, Usinger ; Sasa , June 22, Swezey; Machanao, June 30, Usinger ; Inarajan, Sept. 30, Swezey . Three specimens in U. S. National Museum and one in Bishop Museum, Fullaway , 1911.

This moth is widely distributed from Madagascar, Mauritius, throughout India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Philippines, Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), New Guinea, New Hebrides, and has beeri reported from Samoa and Fiji. It was not previously recorded from Guam. We found it rather rare. We reared it from caterpillars feeding on leaves and in pods of Crotalaria quinquefolia occasionally growing on dikes in fallow rice fields.