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A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS INSECTS. 



Description and biology: Adult reddish brown, 3.3 mm. long, 

 appendages and lateral edges of abdomen lighter colored. 

 Larva yellowish white, mouth parts brownish, mandi'oles black; 

 length 3.2 mm. Fupa with yellow abdomen, wings white, head 

 and prothorax dirty white. 



Distribution: India. 



Stebbing, E. p. Indian Forest Insects, Coleoptera, 1914, 

 pp. 130-133, fig. 89, pi. 131. 



Eiicosoiuii paragraiunia Meyrick. 

 (Bamboo Borer. Tortricidae; Lepidoptera.) 



Host: Bamboo. 



Biology: Caterpillar bores in the stem of green bamboo^ 

 pupates in tunnel. 

 Distribution: India. 



Maxwell-Lefroy, H. Indian Insect Life, 1909, p. 530. 

 Ceratitis striata Froggatt. 



Fig. 19.— Dinoder us mi- 

 nutus. Injury to bam- 

 boostfilks. (Stebbing.) 



(Bamboo Fruit Fly. Trypetidse; Diptera.) 



Host: Bamboo shoots. 



Injury: Larvae feed in decayed shoots of bamboo. 



Description: Adult length 5-6 mm., color pale yellow to 

 grayish with upper surface of thorax variegated with black. 

 (See plate xxvi, fig. a.) 



Distribution: Ceylon. 

 Froggatt, W. W. Dept. Agric, New South Wales, Farmers' 



Bull. 24, 1909, p. 51. 



B. IMPORTANT BAMBOO INSECTS. 



HEMIPTERA. 

 Coccidae: 



Armored— 



Aspidiotus (Odonaspis) bambusarum Cockerell; Japan. 



Aspidiotus {Odonaspis) canaliculata Green; Ceylon. 



Aspidiotus (Odonaspis) inusitata Green; Japan, Ceylon; Arundinaria, Plir/l- 

 lostachys bambusoides. 

 :^.Aspidiotus (Odonaspis) secreta Cockerell; Hawaii, Japan; Bambusa and 

 Arundinaria. Has been taken in quarantine at San Francisco. 



Aspidiotus (Odonaspis) secreta saccharicaulis Zelmtner; Java. 



Aulacaspis javancnsis Newstead; East Java. 



Chionaspis arundinarix Green; Ceylon; Arundinaria. 



Chionaspis bambusx Cockerell; Japan. 



Chionaspis colemani Kuwana; Japan; Phyllostachys bambusoides. 



Chionaspis clongata Green; Ceylon. 



Chionaspis graminis Green; Ceylon, Japan. (See Pi. II, fig. 1.) 



Chionaspis hilcosani Kuwana; Japan; Phyllostachys bambusoides. 



Chionaspis simplex Green; Ceylon. 



Fiorinia bambusx Maskell; Hongkong, China; Bambtisa fortune!. 



Fiorinia diaspiformis Newstead; Java. 



Fiorinia signata Maskell; Japan; Bambusa tessellata. 



Fiorinia tenuis Maskell; Japan; Bambusa. 



Hemichionaspis scrobicularum Green; Ceylon. 



Lepidosaphes bambusicola Cockerell; Brazil. 



Leucaspis bamMisx Kuwana; Japan; Phyllostachys. 

 ^Leucaspis japonica Cockerell; Japan. 



Pinnaspis bambusx Cockerell; Jamaica. 



