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Gonocephalum defressum, Fb. » 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 46, 50, 284. 



This is a widely-distributed species which we have from Peshawar, 

 Masuri, Cawnpur, Bundhilkhand (Central India), Pusa, Lebong 

 (Darjiling District), Buxar Duars, Khasi Hills, Mandalay, Belgaum, 

 Bangalore, Kanara, Trichinopoly, lyerpadi (South India), Coimbatore, 

 and Valparai (Anamalai Hills). In Bundhilkhand it was found at roots 

 of gram and at Bangalore in March 1910, the beetles were noted by 

 T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar to damage grape-vines by nibbling the tender 

 roots and scraping the fruits. Larvae were sent in from Orai, near 

 Cawnpur, by Mr. B. C. Burt and stated to be damaging gram roots in 

 January 1909 ; " the larva remains underground, first eating the hairs 

 of the roots, sometimes cutting roots through four or five inches below 

 ground. Individual plants are attacked here and there ; they yellow 

 and dry up." 



Gonocephalum hofmannseggi, Steven. 



South Ind. Ins., p. 299, f. 143 ; Mysore Entl. Bull, No. 5 (1918). 



We have this from Dehra Dun. Bangalore, Nilgiris, Kanara, CaUcut, 

 Coimbatore, Anamalais and Tinnevelly. It has been noted at Bangalore 

 to do occasional damage to grape-vines, potatoes, etc., and in their recent 

 Bulletin Messrs. Coleman and Kunhi Kannan record it definitely as a 

 pest of potato and ragi {Eleusine coracana), and recommend control by 

 attracting the adult beetles to bundles of weeds pulled out with their 

 roots and laid down on the field bunds. 



We have recently issued a Bulletin on G. Jiofmannseggi and G. depres- mj, Kanhi Canioai 

 sum and remedial measures have been suggested there. This species 

 attacks ragi seedUngs and potato tubers in Mysore. 



Gonocephalum elongatum, Fairm. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 46, 50, 94. 



This is also a widely-distributed species and we have it from Cawnpur, Mr. Fletclier. 

 Chapra, Pusa, Comilla, Buxar Duars, Lashio (Upper Burma), Nongpoh 

 (Khasis), Chitrakote and Lalitpur (Central Provinces), and Belgaum. 

 At Cawnpur the adult beetles have been found on groundnut and at Pusa 

 on 18th January 1919 they were abundant in newly-transplanted beds of 

 seedlings (poppies, petunias, etc.), in a garden, pairing, and apparently 

 breeding and feeding on the plants. At Pusa the larva was found eating 

 roots of gram in May 1915 and the insect has also been reared from the 

 egg on dry indigo leaves. Like the preceding species, it probably feeds 

 normally in the larval stage at the roots of grass but may do considerable 



