Mr. M. M. Lal. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. David. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
116 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
In the Punjab, at Lyallpur, this bug is found congregating in large 
numbers on fallen leaves during the early hours of the morning. These 
can be collected and destroyed. © 
Oxycarenus letus [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 482-483, fig. 367] 
is a minor pest of cotton, usually occurring on old open bolls and living 
upon the extremely small amount of juice that they can suck from 
ripening seeds. The life-history is shown in a new coloured plate, now 
in the press, and of which an advance proof ‘s placed on the table 
fexhobited!. Like Dysdercus, it is not confined to cotton but 1s found on 
various other malvaceous plants, such as hollyhock, Hibiscus spp., 
Abutilon and Thespesia, but in all cases this insect seems only to be 
found in o!d, dried pods. In the case of cotton, eggs are laid on the 
seeds inside the lint, but this only occurs in the case of old, opened bolls, 
or bolls to which access can be obtained by means of some injury such 
as a hole of exit of Harias. 
As regards control, no old open bolls should be left unplucked on 
the bushes ; this will prevent breeding to a large extent. When the bug 
is present in numbers, it may be collected in tr ys or tin funnels over 
which the affected bolls are shaken. 
The chief damage done is not so much to the plant itself as by the 
crushing of the bugs (chiefly nymphs) when the cotton is gmned, so that 
the lint is stained. 
Oxycarenus was very bad once at Cawnpur on stored seeds and un- 
ginned cotton. These were exposed to the sun and the bugs died. This 
happened, of course, in summer. 
Alphitobius piceus has recently been reared from cotton seeds at 
Pusa. It is not a pest of the bolls on the plant, so far as we know, but 
apparently may attack the seeds kept for sowing and thus be of some 
small importance to the out-turn of the next crop. 
We now come te the various sucking insects found on the cotton 
plant. Here again we have a long list but few are of any great import- 
ance :— 
Aphis gossypir. 
Empoasca sp. 
Tetranychus telarius. 
Eriophyes sp. 
Macherota planitie. 
Lygeus pandurus. 
Serinetha augur. 
Clavigralla horrens. 
Eurybrachys tomentesa. 
