ORTHOPTERA. 

 Curtilla africana, Kirby, Cat. Orth. II. fi. 



535 



Fig. 428. Gryllotalpa africana. (After Left 



Distribution. — South Kanara, Malabar, Madura, Coimbatore, 

 South Arcot. Ramnad ; probably throughout the Plains of Southern 

 India. 



Lifehistory- Not known in detail. 



Food diul Status. — Not a pest, often found in damp corners of 

 houses. Once reported as damaging sugarcane to some extent in 

 Tellicherrj (Malabar district) by gnawing the setts. Probably also 

 predaceous on smaller animals and does damage sometimes by 

 driving tunnels through the ground in search of food. 



Control. — The insects usually prefer to live in damp localities 

 and it is therefore possible to bring them out ol their burrows by 

 flooding the ground, when many birds readily attack them. 



CECANTHUS [NDICUS, Sauss. 

 (Ecanthus indicus, Saussure, Melanges Orth., p. 594 1877); 

 Lelroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 105. f. 42 ; Kirby, Cat. Orth. II, 74. 



I • I. (Ecanthus indicus. The outline figun 



inal.) 



iral si/e. 



