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Jalali S. K., Singh S. P., Ballal, C. R., and Kumar P. (1987). Evaluation of Different Insect Eggs for Rearing of Egg parasite, Telenomus remus Nixon (Hymenopetra : Scelionidae). J. Biol. Control, 1 (2). 138-140, 1987..

Telenomus remus Nixon is an important egg parasite of Spodoptera litura (F.) and S. mauritia Boisd. in Fiji (Lever, 1943). It was introduced into India from New Guinea in 1963 (Sankaran, 1974). The biology was studied by Gerling (1972) and Joshi et al. (1976). Krishnamoorthy and Mani (1985) reported 50 per cent parasitism on S.litura under field cage conditions. The present study was conducted to test T.remus against important pests in order to conduct further field trails and also to find an alternate laboratory host for continuous breeding in the laboratory.