492 SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



Lifehistory. The creamy-white egg is cylindrical, curved, rounded 

 at one end, the other fitted with a black flattened cap; it is thrust 

 into the stem just beneath the bark (but not into the stem tissues 

 proper! the black cap lying level with the outer surface of the bark. 

 The egg has no projecting horns. The young nymph emerges after 

 about 6 days and is green in colour with long legs and antennje. 

 (Y.R.R.) 



Foodplants. Sann Hemp (Crotalaria juncea). 



Status. A minor pest as a rule, occasionally serious so that all 

 die leaves curl up and assume an unhealthy pale-yellowish colour. 



Control. Use ol bagnets and hand-nets while the crop is low. 



Remarks. The closely-allied R. fellucidiis. Distant, is recorded 

 from Cochin, but R. importunitas seems the only species of economic 

 importance. 



FULGORDDiE. 



EURYBRACHYS TOMENTOSA, Fb. 



Cicada tomentosa, Fab., Syst. Em.. II, 324 ( i775>- 

 Eurybrachys tomentosa, Distant. Faun. Ind. Rhyn., III. 223; 

 Lefroy. Ind. Ins. Life, p. 725. 



Fig. 379. — Eurybrachys tomentosa. The small figure shows the 

 natural size. (Ori 



Distribution. Throughout the Plains of Southern India. 



Lit, history. -Eggs are laid in masses on leaves and are covered 

 with the white flocculent waxy efflorescence from the body of the 

 female. Nymphs are found on the leaves; thej are brownish, with 

 long anal filaments. |Y.R.R.] 



Foodplants. Calotropis, Cotton and various Malvaceous plants. 

 Folyphagous; found on most shrubs and plants. 



Status. Xol a pest. 



PHENICE MUSTY, Westwd. 



Phenice mcesta, Westwd., A.M.N.H. (2). VII, 209(1851); Distant, 

 Faun. Ind. Rhyn., Ill, 290-207, f. 142; Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 726, 



f. 499- 



Assamia dentata, Buckton, I.M.N., IV. 1, t. 1 (1896). 



