RHYNCHOTA. 495 



Control. — This is very difficult as the insects live protected 

 within the leaf-sheaths. No satisfactory method ran be suggested 

 at present except cutting affected plants lor use as green fodder. 



Remarks. The identification of this insect lias kindly been 

 confirmed by Mr. Distant. It has hitherto been ion fused with 

 Libumia psylloides, Leth (I.M.N., 111, 105, fig.) but, by the figure 

 given of the latter, differs in several points. The large spurs on 

 the hind-legs are characterise . 



CERCOPID/E. 

 COSMOSCARTA RELATA, Dist. 

 Cosmoscarta relata, Dist., T.E.S. (1900), 669, Faun. Intl. Rhyn., 

 }; Lallemand, Gen. tns. fasc, [43 (Cercopidas), p. 136. 



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- I. — Cosmoscarta relata. I he outline figure shows the natural size. 



Distribution. — Sidapur, Pollibetta (Coorg) ; Saklaspur (Mysore). 

 Lifehislory. — The immature wingless young are blackish-purple 

 with greyish-yellow head, pronotum and legs, and with paler bands 

 around the abdomen. They live in small colonies inside .1 common 

 mass of froth from which drops of clear liquid fall dov 

 wet the ground beneath the tree. The masses of froth are generally 

 found on the stalks of young shoots and of ripening fruits and 

 these latter often drop off the tree as a result of the infestation. 

 The winged adult, which is blue-black with reddish pronotum and 

 markings on the tegmina, is very active and difficult to catch. 

 I ik (Artocarpus integrifolia). 

 \ serious local pest of Jak in M 

 Control. — Removal and destruction of the young insei I 

 closed in the in ith. 



fASSID/E. 

 IDIOCEKi th. 



Idiocerus niveosparsus, Lethierry, J.A.S.B., LYIII. 252 (1889); 

 Distant. Faun. Ind. Rhyn., IV. [85, f. 121; Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, 

 p. 736- f- 511. 



