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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Ml. Gbosb. 



Ml. Hamakrisbna 

 Ayyar. 



Mi. Fletcher. 



Mr. Ramakrishna 

 Ayyar. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



Mr. Ramakrishna 

 Ayyar. 



Mr. Pillay. 

 Mr. Fletcher. 



It hardly occurs in young plants but tlie adult beetles may gnaw young 

 shoots. The larvas occur late in the season at Pusa. It is difficult to 

 say whether it is a pest. 



The grub kills the plants which it attacks. 



Apomecyna perotteti. 



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



This species is apparently confined to Southern India. We have it 

 from Kanara, Madura and Pollibetta (South Coorg). The life-history 

 is not known but is likely to be the same as in ^4. pertigera and A. liisirio 

 and the Pollibetta specimens were collected by myself around cultivated 

 cucurbits. 



Olenecmn'ptus biJobus, Fb. 



Stebbing, Ind. For. Ins. Col., p. 375, f. 250 ; Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, p. 251. 



This is a widely-distributed species attached to fig-trees. At Trivan- 

 drum, Travancore, it has been found in banyan, and at Surat, Coimbatore, 

 Salem, and in the Krishna district it has been found damaging Ficus 

 carica, the larva boring into the solid wood. At Pusa it does riot seem to 

 have been bred, but probably breeds in the wild fig-trees ; our Pusa 

 examples were all taken as adults on gular {Ficus glomerata), teak and 

 jak trees, or at light. In Java and Sumatra it ha« been recorded by 

 Dammerman as boring in Ficus elastica. In India it seems to be mainly 

 a pest of cultivated fig in Southern India. 



In Madras it does a good deal of damage to cultivated figs. The 

 larvae are found right inside the wood of the stem. 



Have you tried an)'- treatment in the case of affected trees ? 



We cut out the old stem and affected branches. That is the only 

 thijig that can be done. 



The adult beetles are attracted to light. 



Yes ; they come in to light sometimes at Pusa. 



Nupserha bicolor, Thorns. 



Dutt, Bihar Agricl. Journal ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 

 p. 47, 70 ; Ann. Kept. Impl. Entom. 1917-18, p. 98, t. 14, 

 ff. la-d (1913). 



This species is apparently only known so far from Bihar, where it 

 has been reared at Sabour on soy-bean and Fann-hemp and at Pusa froin 

 soy-bean, sann-hemp, Vigna catjang, Phaseolus aconitifolius and Ph- 

 radiatus. 



