Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Agrotidae, and Pyralidae of Guam Author Swezey, O. H. Experiment Station Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Honolulu text 1946 1942-12-20 Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189 Honolulu, Hawaii Insects of Guam II 163 185 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5165313 058b438a-ffe3-452b-a286-9267419b3014 5165313 1. Argina cribraria Clerck. Ph (alaena) cribraria Clerck , Icon. Ins.. 2 : pl. 54, fig. 4, 1764 . Argina cribraria, Hampson , : 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.