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Meloid^ (Cantharid.^). 



Ejncauta hirticornis hadgleyi, Wellm. MS. 



This species was sent in by Dr. H. H. Mann in June 1907 as damaging 

 vegetable gardens in Assam and also seriously attacking Seshania acukata 

 {dhaincha) plants introduced for green manure on Tea Gardens. It. was 

 also sent in on 21st September 1907 by the Head-Master of the Dacca 

 Training School as destroying leaves of dhaincha plants. 



The Pusa Collection also contains specimens from Buxar Duars, 

 Gauhati and Nongpoh. 



Eficauta sp. 



S. S. I., p. 306, f. 154. 

 This species was found at Puttur, South Kanara, on paddy. 3rd 

 October 1909. 



It is a local pest of paddy, eating the flowers and also attacking the 



ripe ear-heads. 



Epicauta sp. 



Adult beetles were sent in to us on 17th June 1914 from Simla by 

 Kishen Singh as " working havoc on all the potato and cabbage crops, 

 and it swarms like locusts, eating up all the leaves, even of walnut and 

 other trees." 



Zonabris phalerata, Pall. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 128. 



Specimens were sent in to us by Messrs. Mitchell and Company on 

 23rd June 1915 from Garhi, Kashmir (3,000 feet) and were stated to be 

 eating and destroying the olive fruits on the trees. 



At Pusa the adults occur in November every year and destroy Hibiscus 

 rosa-sinensis flowers. 



We also have specimens of this species (identified by Dr. Creighton 

 Wellman) from Helem (Assam), Belgaum, Shevaroys, Masuri, Surat, 

 Berar (Central Provinces), Hoshangabad, Saran (Bihar) and Cuttack, 

 Mr. Robertson- It has not been noticed on olives in the North- West Frontier Province. 



Brown. 



Zonabris fustulata, Thunb. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 43, 60, 128, 201. 



Mr. Fle'.cier. We have two or three specimens named as pustulata by Dr. Creighton 



Wellman but I cannot distinguish these from phalerata, which seems to 

 be the commoner form. 



