The larvae of Indarbela quadrinotata Walker bores into the shoot of Santalum album L. and form

India’s forest cover was estimated to be about 67.701 million hectares or 22.8 percent of the country’s land area and other wooded lands comprise of 4.11 million ha (UNEP Report, 2000). The dense forests in almost all the major states has been reduced and forest degradation is a matter of serious concern now. Principal plantation species such as Acacia spp., Eucalyptus spp. and Tectona grandis Linn. are the main species occupying greater area in planted forests. The other species such as Eucalyptus globules Labill., E. grandis W.Hill ex Maiden, E. tereticornis Sm., Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex Benth., A. catechu (L.) Wild. Oliv., Albizia spp., Azadirachta indica (L.) Adelb., Casuarina equisetifolia L., Dalbergia sissoo Roxb., Gmelina arborea Roxb., Populus spp. Prosopis spp., Shorea robusta Roth, Terminalia spp., Cedrus deodara (Roxb.) G. Don and Pinus roxburghii Sargent are also planted for various commercial utilization purposes.