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Oil mulberry plots in Kollegal more than once. And on one occasion 

 surface-grasshoppers of the genera Moloims and (Edaleus were noted 

 very bad in paddy nurseries in one village in the Coimbatore district. 



Thysanoptera. 



Very little attention has been paid till now to the insects of this group 

 and there is little on record regarding their economic importance.* In 

 South India the following species have been noted so far, as having some 

 economic importance : — 



Oti paddy. Tlirij)s {Bagnallia) oryzw on seedlings in many parts of 

 the Province. Pretty bad sometimes. (Some p. 353, Bulletin of Entomo- 

 logical Research, 1915, for description of this species by Williams). 



On turmeric and arrowroot. PanchcefotJiri'ps indicus, Bagn. 

 (Plate 20). On turmeric in Coimbatore and on arrow-root in Malabar. 

 Not serious. 



On onion. Heliothrips indicus, Bgl. Bad sometimes in Northern 

 Circars. 



On grape-vine. Bliifi'phorotliri'ps cruentatum, Hood. On tender 

 graj)e-\ane leaves. Turns the leaves pale brown. Found in numbers 

 on the foliage at certain seasons. 



On Minniso'ps elengi. Arrhenothrips ramahrishnce, Hood, (Plate 99). 

 Very serious on this garden plant in Coimbatore. The leaves are very 

 badly twisted and galled. 



Thrips of sorts have also been noted doing some damage to chillies, 

 indigo, etc., in different parts of the country. 



On groundnut. — In the Palur farm a species of Thrips was once 

 rej^orted doing serious damage. 



Just a few words regarding non-hexapod pests of some importance 

 may not be out of place before I close. Small Mites of sorts have been 

 noted occasionally bad on cotton, cliolam, castor and coconut ; those on 

 cliolam and cotton have often been found to do appreciable damage. 



The others among non-hexapods are the eel-worms. I have seen 

 young tea-seedUngs and pepper-vines suffer from the attacks of eel- 

 worms. In one or two places eel-worms appeared bad on pepper in the 

 Wynaad last November [1918]. 



The question of crabs on paddy seedlings has become well-known 

 and needs no further remarks from me. 



As already stated in the beginning, my chief idea in getting this list 

 prepared was to gather more information regarding all or any of these 

 from observations made by my colleagues in other parts of India so that 



* In another paper I have prepared for this Meeting, I have dealt at some length on 

 our present knowledge of this group (See pp. 618-621). 



