Margaronia indica (Saunders)

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 : 181

29. Margaronia indica (Saunders) .

Eudioptes indica Saunders, Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 2 (1): 163, pl. 12, figs. 5-7, 1851.

Glyphodes indica, Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths 4: 360, 1896.

Margaronia indica, Tams, Ins. Samoa 3 (4): 282, 1935.

This cucumber and melon pest occurs throughout Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions, Fiji, Samoa, and Marquesas. It was not previously re­ ported from Guam, and we found only an occasional caterpillar on cucumber, melon, and pumpkin leaves. The only two reared were from Yigo , May 19, on honeydew melon ; Piti , Sept. 30, on pepino melon, Swezey . Two caterpillars on cucumber leaves at Agana swamp were parasitized, probably by Cremastus flavo-orbitalis , but as the parasites died in cocoons, I cannot be positive of their identity.