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The adults are fairly active and are probably best dealt with by 

 catching in hand-nets and shaking the plants over pans of oil and water. 



Jtagmiis imfrntunitas, Dist. 



F. I. Rhyn. V, 288-289, f. 159 ; South Ind. Ins., p. 491, f. 378 ; 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 71. 



We have this from Pusa, Nagpur, Samalkota and Palur (South 

 Arcot), in all cases on sann-hemp, of which it is sporadically a serious 

 pest, especially on young plants, whose leaves curl up and become pale- 

 yellow and finally drop off in bad cases. 



In Ceylon it has been noted by Mr. E. Ernest Green to puncture 

 leaves of Crotalaria verrucosa and C. incarna [Distant]. 



As it is chiefly a pest of young plants, it may be controlled by bagnets 

 or handnets. 



Halticus minntus, Rent. 



Dist., F. I. Rhyn. II, 480, f. 312 ; Ind. Ins. Life, p. 707, f. 479 ; 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 269, 286, 294. 



We have this from Pusa and also from Moulmein, where it was found 

 in September 1914 in numbers on svreet-potato. It is sometimes a pest 

 of tobacco seedhngs and brinjal seedUngs, and Distant records it as 

 found on an Ipomoea at Peradeniya. 



It may be collected in handnets when sufficiently abundant. 



FULGORID^. 



Eunjhrachys tomentosa, Fb. 



Dist., F. I. Rhyn. Ill, 222-223 ; S. Ind. Ins. p. 492, f. 379 ; 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 78, 118, 124, 136. 



We have this from Surat (Athwa Farm), 5th December 1903 ; 

 Surat, on cotton in 1903 ; Dhuha, 28th October 1908 ; Nagpur, 27th June 

 1905, on Zizyphus jujuha ; Godarwada (C. P.), 15th October 1910 ; 

 Madras, 28th September 1906 ; Penukonda, 30th March 1907, on Hibis- 

 cus esculentus ; Nagpur, on bhindi — imagines on flowers and tender shoots ; 

 Aurangabad, on bhindi tender shoots ; PoUibetta, on Erythrina lithos- 

 ferma. 



This species occurs commonly in the Central Provinces, Bombay 

 and Southern India on Calotropis and Erythrina and less commonly on 

 bhindi and cotton. It is scarcely a pest of cultivated plants. 



