Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Jhaveri. 
Mr. Shroff. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
92 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Aprocerena nerteria [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 457-458, fig. 333] 
is widely distributed in most parts of the Plains of India but is appa- 
rently not known in Bombay. In Madras it is well known, under the 
name Surul-puchi, as a serious pest of groundnut and it occurs as far 
north as the North-West Frontier Province, so that its apparent absence 
in Western India is perhaps due simply to want of observation there. 
Besides groundnut it occurs on soy bean, Cajanus indicus and Psoralea 
corylifolia. Our records include the following localities and food- 
plants :— 
Peradeniya—Groundnut (destructive in February 1905). 
Coimbatore—Groundnut. 
Hagari—Groundnut (top leaves). 
Sundarbans— 
Nagpur—Soybean, Psoralea corylifolia. 
Pusa—Soybean, Psoralea corylifolia. 
Peshawar—(Moths only). 
As regards its lifehistory and control, I have no more to add beyond 
what is given in “ South Indian Insects.” This is a species which badly 
wants working at, to find out more about it before we can tackle it 
really satisfactorily. We should lke to know whether it really occurs 
in Bombay and also in Burma. 
It has not been noticed in Bombay. 
Nor in Burma. 
That does not prove that it does not occur. It has never been 
recorded from the Punjab but doubtless occurs there also as I found 
it common as far north as Peshawar. It is quite likely that lucerne, 
shaflal and bersim may turn out to be alternative foodplants. 
The weevils on the list are usually of minor importance but some- 
times occur in sufficient numbers to damage the leaves. We have 
records of Myllocerus viridanus at Chepauk and in abundance at Palur, 
of M. dentifer and M. discolor at Palur, and of M. dorsalis at Villapuram. 
Myllocerus viridanus [* Fauna of India,” Curculionide, Vol. I, pp. 301- 
303, fig. 93] has also been recorded on groundnut from Trichinopoly 
and seems to be the species most commonly found on this crop. 
Thrips sometimes occur on the leaves, and do some damage, but 
these are insects that we really know nothing about in India as yet. 
At Palur in 1916 Thrips was bad on groundnut. 
Mites also sometimes damage groundnut leaves but here again we 
come to a group that we know nothing about. 
