Mr. Ratiram. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 

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(p. 478, fig. 360). We shall have more to say about this insect when we 
come to deal with pests of Hrythrina. 
Graptostethus servus, also figured and described in “South Indian 
Insects ” (p. 482, fig. 366), also occurs as a rule in small numbersand is 
scarcely a pest. Control as in Clavigralla. 
Coptosoma of various species [see “‘ South Indian Insects,” pp. 469- 
470, fig. 345] sometimes occur, but less on tur than on Sesbania and 
other Leguminose. The bugs are active and are best caught in hand- 
nets. 
Aphis cardui is common on the shoots but control measures do not 
seem to have been practised. 
Membracid bugs of various kinds also occur,on the shoots principally, 
but are usually of quite minor importance as pests. 
Membracids are found on the flowers, pods and shoots at Raipur. 
We come now to the insects damaging Cajanus indicus by boring 
in the stem. In this class there are :— 
Alcides collaris. 
Sphenoptera arachidis. 
Aleides collaris [described and figured in “South Indian Insects,” 
p. 337, fig. 195] was recorded as doing some damage at Dharwar in 1909 
and 1910. The grubs bore in the stem and produce a swelling and in 
the case of young plants they may be killed back, whilst older plants 
may break off in the wind at the point of attack. In the plants sent 
from Dharwar the swellings were in the roots or stem just below ground- 
level. This is the only occasion that we have had Alcides collaris sent 
in as a definite pest of tur. 
Sphenoptera arachidis 1s occasionally found on Cajanus indicus in 
Southern India [see “ South Indian Insects,” pp. 298-299, figs. 141-142] 
but is scarcely a pest of this crop. 
It occurs in small numbers at Coimbatore. 
A few insects attack the roots of tur. Of these we know :— 
‘Termites. 
Gonocephalum elongatum. 
Gonocephalum depressum. 
‘Termites of various species attack roots of Cajanus indicus as of most 
other plants. I saw rather a good example of damage last year in Assam. 
About half-way up the road from Gauhati to Shillong there is a small 
estate where Cajanus indicus is grown as a host-plant for the cultiva- 
tion of Lac, and the most serious pest they have to contend with is 
a large termite—an Odontotermes of the few group, probably O. 
parvidens, Holmgr.—which attacks the roots and kills the plants back to 

