186 PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Blosyrus incequalis, Boh. 



Mshll., F. I. Cure, I, pp. 35-36 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 61, 81. 



This species seems to be restricted to Southern India. We have 

 it from Yemmiganur, Adoni and Hadagalli (all in Bellary), Coimbatore, 

 and Nellikuppam (S. Arcot) and Marshall also records it from Sampgaon, 

 Belgaum, Mysore, Bangalore, Pondicherry, Nagodi (S. Kanara), N. 

 Coorg, and Anuradhapura. 



At Adoni the adults were found on gingelly, at Hadagalli on cluster 

 beans, and at Nellikuppam in August 1912 on indigo in some numbers. 



Tanymecus sciurus, Oliv. 



Mshll., F. I. Cure. I, pp. 76-78, f. 24^ ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 149. 



We have this from Eastern Bengal and Assam (I. R. 357-V of 1 

 August 1907), Chapra and Pusa, and Marshall also records it from Chota 

 Nagpur and Patna. At Pusa it has been found on sugarcane on two 

 occasions and in small numbers on cotton. 

 Mr. P. C. Sea. I found it doing a certain amount of damage to sugarcane at Rangpur. 



It eats the soft leaves of the young shoots. 



Tanymecus princeps, Fst. 



Mshll., F. I. Cure, I, 97, f. 2il ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 103. 



Mr. Fletcher. ^^ have this from Surat, where it was found " on cotton leaves," 



from Hoshangabad, and from Palamau, where D. P. Singh found it 

 commonly in October 1906. It is also recorded by Marshall from Nag- 

 pur, Belgaum, and N. Kanara. At Belgaum it was found on beans or 

 other plants bordering rice-fields (Marshall). 



Tanymecus hispidus, Mshll. 



F. I. Cure. I. 98, f. 2U ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 103, 

 149, 168, 190, 207, 254. 

 The larva has been found at Pusa in sugarcane fields. The Pusa 

 Collection contains specimens from Rohtak (Punjab), found on cotton, 

 from Pusa, Dholi and Cooch Behar, and Marshall also records it from 

 Rampurchaka, Bijnor District, United Provinces, and Jallandhur. It 

 is of very minor importance as a rule, occurring at Pusa on maize, rice, 

 sugarcane, lucerne and leaves of DaWergia sissu and Zizyphus jujuha, 

 but at Dholi [near Pusa] in June 1909 it was reported to be attacking 

 maize and in March 1918 it was sent in to us by Messrs. Turner, Morrison 

 & Co. as found in fairly large numbers on a sugarcane plantation in 

 Cooch Behar. 



