Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramachandra 
Rao. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Khare. 
Mr. Shroff. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Liogryllus bimaculatus may sometimes do considerable damage to 
gram-pods by eating out the contents. I have here a photograph (ea- 
hibited) showing some pods eaten out by these crickets. We found them 
common in the gram-fields here and found that they seemed to prefer 
a mixed animal and vegetable diet, feeding partly on caterpillars and 
partly on gram pods. You will find a note on this habit in the Bulletin 
of Short Notes issued last year. On the one hand, therefore, the crickets 
do a great deal of good by catching and devouring the caterpillars- 
feeding on the gram and on the other hand they must themselves plead 
guilty to doing direct damage to the crop. At present I should not like 
to say whether they do more good than harm. The photograph clearly 
shows the damage done. The case is rather parallel with that of blister- 
beetles which damage crops but do good by destroying grasshoppers’ 
egomasses. 
I have a record of a weevil, Tylopholis ballardi, damaging the stems 
of gram-plants in the Bellary District. It has recently been described 
by Dr. Marshall in his “* Fauna ” volume on weevils, volume I, page 158. 
He merely says that “it was attacking the stems of Bengal gram ”’ but 
T do not know what damage is done or whether by the beetle or its larva. 
The adult beetle damages the plants in Bellary by gnawing and 
scraping the stem. 
Gonocephalum elongatum has been found at Pusa and G@. ‘deneeen 
in Bundelkhand, in the larval state in both cases, at roots of gram, and 
probably do some damage by feeding on the roots, but these are insects 
that we really know very little about. 
In Nagpur Termites damage this crop in patches. 
At Padu Farm, in Burma, Termites and cockchafer grubs do serious 
damage to this crop. No remedial measures have been tried. 
The next crop is 
Mune (Phaseolus mungo radiatus). 
[Mung—Hind. Green Gram in Madras.] 
and ‘with this we will take :— 
afer Urip (Phaseolus radiatus) 
asythe pests of both are practically the same. 
On the leaves we get :-— 
Azazna rubricans. 
Nacoleia indicata. 
Plusia peponis. 
Ptusia chalcytes. 
Plusia daubei. 
