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minor pest, Its lifehistory is shown on a coloured plate issued last 
year. The most effective control is by shaking the weevils off the 
affected plants onto cloths or into trays and then dropping the catch 
into oil and water. 
Tanymecus hispidus, Mshll. [Fauna of India, Curculionidae, I, p. 98, 
fig. 24, ¢.] is known from Bihar to the Punjab and has been found on 
cotton at Rohtak, but it is of no importance as a pest of cotton. 
Tanymecus princeps, Fst. [Fauna of India, Curculionidae, I, 97, 
fig. 24, .] occurs from Bengal to Surat and North Kanara. At Surat 
it was found on cotton leaves, but we do not know it as a pest of cotton. 
Astycus lateralis is sporadically abundant at Pusa on cotton and 
has also been found on cotton at Cawnpur and Nagpur. It appears 
to be universally distributed throughout India and Burma but does 
little damage to cotton as a rule. Control, when abundant, as in 
Myllocerus 11-pustulatus. 
Cyrtacanthacris ranacea [South Indian Insects,” pp. 530-531, 
fig. 424] is common in cotton fields thoughout India and undoubtedly 
does some damage at times by eating the leaves, but it is scarcely a pest. 
When sufficiently common, it can be caught in bags or hand-nets. 
In Nadiad there is a grasshopper which is a sporadic pest. It occurred Mr. Jhaveri, 
in 1913 and 1914. I am not sure of its identity. 
The flowers of cotton are attacked and eaten by various Meloid and Mr, Fletcher. 
Cetoniad beetles. The habits of all are very similar as regards damage 
and when in sufficient numbers they can be collected by hand or in 
hand-nets. 
We will take next the insects mjuring cotton buds :— 
Dasyneura gossypr. 
Gelechia gossypiella. 
Earias fabia. 
» imsulana. 
Dasyneura gossypii was originally brought forward as a cotton-pest 
in India in “South Indian Insects” where it is described and figured, 
pp- 363-364, fig. 223, as Contarinia sp., and it has since been described 
[Canadian Entomologist, 1916, 29-30] by Dr. Felt as Dasyneura gossypii. 
I do not think there is much to add to the account already given. This 
species has only been noted so far at Coimbatore, the larve boring in the 
buds which wither and fail to expand. It is probably widely distributed 
in India but is easily overlooked, so I draw your attention to it. 
This gall-fly occurs in Mysore also in cotton-buds. Mr. Kunhi Kan- 
nan. 
Gelechia gossyprella and the species of Earias also damage the flower- Mr. Fletcher. 
buds of cotton but we will consider them under the heading of Bolls. 
