• Caterpillars feed on leaves
• Defoliation

• Larva - yellowish brown with black spots and long lateral tufts of hairs
• Adults: Grayish head and thorax and whitish abdomen.
• Forewings are reddish brown spot ringed with white
• Hind wings are white .

• Field sanitation
• Free from weeds and debris
• Collect and destroy the egg mass
• Burning the groups of larvae found on tree trunks with torches.
• Spray chlorpyriphos 20EC or phosalone 2 ml/l
• Field release of chalcidid wasp, Brachymeria sp.

Image Source:

http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Metanastria-hyrtaca.php