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beetles and cutting out of attacked twigs. No alternative foodpiant 

 is known as yet. 



The adult beetles can easily be hand-picked and the places where the Mr. Ramacaandra 

 eggs have been deposited can also be spotted easily and these branches ^^°' 

 cut off and destroyed. 



Sthenias grisator, Fb. 



S. I. I., p. 326, f. 182 ; Stebbing, Ind. For. Ins. Col., pp. 377-378, 

 f. 252 ; Froc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 77. 235, 255, 265, 

 267, 268. 



We have this from PaKtana State, on grape-vines, oleander and other Mr. Fletcher. 

 flowering plants ; Nasik, on grape-vines ; Bangalore, adults girdling " 

 rose-bushes ; Pollibetta (South C'oorg), adults girdling Enjtlirina ; and 

 Coimbatore, adults girdling mulberry and Bougainvillea. Stebbing also 

 records it as girdling TaherncBmoniana alba in Kurnul. 



AYe discussed this fairly fully at the last Meeting and I do not think 

 there is much to add. 



At Coimbatore it is a serious pest of mulberry. The stages have been Mr. Ramakrishna 

 drawn on a plate [exhibited], but the length of the life cycle is not Imown. ■^yy^r. 



In Mysore it is not serious on mulberry. Mr. Kunhi Kanaan 



At Poona it is very bad on grape-vine, girdling branches as thick as Mr. Ramrao. 

 one's thumb. 



« 



Apomeojna jjertigera, Thoms. 

 S. I. I., p. 327, t. 11 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 303, 307. 



This has been reared at Pusa from larvae in Luffa stem, bottle-gourd, Mr. Fletcher, 

 snake-gourd, and pumpkin stem, and the adult beetles have also been 

 found eating cucumber fruits. At Mandalay it has been noted to 

 bore pumpkins, and we also have it from Chapra, Jorhat and Coimbatore, 

 It is a minor pest of cucurbits, the larva boring the stems and the adults 

 eating the young fruits. It may be controlled by destruction of affected 

 stems and collection of the adult beetles. 



Ajjcmecyna histrio, Fb. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 304, 307. 



This has been reared at Pusa from larvae in stems of Lujfa, Cephakmdra 



SLYid giirmch{Ti)ios2)oracordifolia). We have it also from Chapra and 



Laheria Serai. It is a pest much in the same way as is A. perligem but 



does not seem to be so widely distributed. 



