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Tanymecus indicus, Fst. 



Mshll., F. I. Cure, pp. 99-100, f. 32 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 

 . pp. 69, 81, 96, 97, 134, 168, 180, 186, 190, 193, 273, 283. 



Our records include the following localities and foodplants : — 



It is an occasional bad pest of young wheat (when 5-6 inches high) 

 in the Punjab and once occuired in numbers on beetroot at Pusa. SpUt 

 pumpkins, placed at dusk and examined before sunrise, may be used 

 as traps for the beetles. Marshall also records it as a pest of gram and 

 barley, and at Surat the adults attack juar seedlings and do some damage. 



I found it a serious pest of juar seedlings at Surat last year. A Mr. Jhaveri. 



bait of cut pumpkins and heaps of uprooted weeds, put in the rows, 



attracted large numbers of beetles. It is also found on cotton. 



In Madras it is found on cotton. Mr. Ramakrislina. 



Ayyar. 



Atmetonychus peregrinvs, Oliv. 



Mshll., F. I. Cure, I. pp. 112-113, f. 37 ; Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, pp. 123, 253, 273, 285. 



We have this from Amballa, Fyzabad, Chapra, Pusa, Cuttack and Mr. Fletcher.. 

 Eastern Bengal and Assam. At Pusa the adults have been found on 

 jute and on two occasions on ber, at Amballa on bhindi. at Cuttack on 

 potato leaves, whilst at Fyzabad it was reported on opium poppy on 

 16th December 1904 and again as damaging poppy seedUngs on 14th 

 January 1918, 



Hypomeces sqitamosus, F. 



Mshll., F. I. Cure, I. pp. 116-117, f. 39 ; Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, pp. 128, 296. 



This species is apparently common in Burma and we have it from 

 Myitkyina, Mandalay, Tagmiding, Minbu and Moulmein. At Myitkyina 

 the adults occurred on orange and on Hibiscus rosasinensis, and at 

 Mandalay K. D. Shroff found it on Amaranthus. 



In South India and Assam it defoHates teak, etc. Mr. Beeson. 



