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Gnathos'pastoides rouxi, Cast. 



South Ind. Ins., p. 302, f. 147 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 

 pp. 51, 201. 



Mr. FJetcter. This is a widely-distributed species which we have from Fyzabad 



(United Provinces), Pusa, Seoni, Bhandra (Central Provinces), Hoshang- 

 abad, Surat, Dharwar, Kanara, Bezwada, Samalkota, Devanakonda 

 (Kurnul), BeeravalU (Bellary) and Yemmiganur (Bellary). At Pusa it 

 has been found on urid leaves. At Bhandara the adult beetles were 

 found in a field of Kiitki [Panicvm miliare] ; they " ate up nearly two- 

 thirds of the whole crop, selecting the seeds which were just ripening and 

 leaving those that were dry and perfectly mature." At Seoni on 7th 

 September 1904 the adult was noted to attack the ear of young plants 

 of Kutki. At Dharwar on 21st September 1908 the beetles were found 

 on juar ear-heads ; " sweet " and " dwarf Milo " varieties of juar were 

 attacked, whilst the " Sundhia " variety, grown close to the others, 

 was quite free from attack. At Devanakonda the beetles occurred on 

 cholam at the end of August 1913. At BeeravalU and Yemmiganur the 

 adults appeared at the end of August 1913. 



Tenebrionid^. 



Hopatroides seriatoforus, Pairm. 



Specimens of adult beetles were sent to us on 29th July 1910 by the 

 Superintendent of the Agricultural Station, Dharwar, who stated that 

 they were " found in the surface of the soil and had done a lot of damage 

 by cutting the tenderupshoots of potatoes, castors and groundnuts." 

 Injured stems were sent for inspection. No attack of these beetles had 

 hitherto been observed nor has it been reported subsequently. 



Gonoce'phalmn brachelytra , Gebien. 



We have this only from Pusa, where it is abundant. On 18th January 

 1919 adult beetles were found in large numbers in recently transplanted 

 beds of poppies, petunias, etc., in a garden, feeding on the plants. They 

 were collected by hand and excluded from the floAver-beds by a border 

 of ashes mixed with kerosine. The larva has been found underground 

 at Pusa in a gram field, where it was eating gram roots ; in confinement 

 it fed on fresh indigo leaves and decomposing leaves. The larva and pupa 

 have been found on 18th May 1914 underground in a field of paJical 

 {Tricliosanthes dioica). 



