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Of mealy-wings we have chiefly the Dialeurodes eugenice on Eugenia 

 and Aleurodids on Bassia and Citrus. 



Of plant-Uce pests we have several, and of these the chief are those 

 found on cotton, tobacco, Citrus, lab lab, cow-pea and cliolam. 



Bamboo ^Voolly Aphis. On bamboo we occasionally find a species 

 of woolly aphis coming in large colonies (PI. 19, fig. 2). It is not the 

 same as Fletcher's fig. 392. 



The Coconut Aphis [Cerataphis lataniw), Fletcher's fig. 393, has not 

 been noted since. 



Coming to Scales and Mealy-bugs there are a good many species of 

 importance. In a paper I prepared for the Session of the Indian Science 

 Congress held at Lahore in 1918, I hsted 32 species of Coccids having 

 some economic importance. Though all these are not bad pests at 

 present, some of them are really important. Of these mention might 

 be made here of the following. 



Pulvinaria maxima, Gr., a bad pest of nhn trees {Melia azadirachta). 



Ceroplastodes cajani, on lab lab stems and Ocimum ; often bad. 



Anomalococcus indica, Gr., on babul {Acacia arabica). 



Pseudococcus sacchari. Bad on paddy. The disease is called Scorai 

 novu in Tamil and often reported from Tanjore, Trichinopoly and Madura 

 districts. Fields badly attacked show the infestation patches here and 

 there. 



Phenacoccus insolitus. Bad on brinjal plants, Madras, Coimbatore, etc.. 



Ripersia sacchari. On sugarcane stems. This is the commonest 

 species of mealy-bug on cane, and is different from Pseudococcus sacchari. 



Icerya cegyfliaca. On jak, Malabar and Nilgiris. This is the species 

 to which I referred at the last meeting (p. 152 of Report). 



Hemichionasins asqndisirai. On pepper in Malabar, and also on 

 Ficus leaves elsewhere. 



Aspidiotus tamarindi. On tamarind. Coimbatore etc. 



Phenacoccus iceryoides. On mango ; in Coimbatore, Northern Circars 

 and Tanjore. 



Pseudococcus corymbatus. On cotton, mango and jak. In different 

 places. 



Aspidiotus aurantii. On rose, Malabar. 



Aspidiotus curcumw or hartii. On turmeric rhizomes at Coimbatore. . 



Pseudococcus longispinus ? Bad inside leaf-sheaths of young coconut 

 trees ; Coimbatore, Malabar and South Kanara. 



Orthoptera. 



Among grasshoppers no new pest of any importance has been noted.. 

 The wingless grasshopper, Crihacris sp., was however found pretty bad 



