PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 12] 
As regards control, pulling out and burning the affected plants has Mr. Ramachandra 
been found very useful. Rao. 
At Coimbatore Pempheres affinis is found in Hibiscus cannabinus 
also. 
Alcides affaber has hitherto been mixed up with A. leopardus and the Mr Fletcher. 
account of the latter in “South Indian Insects,” pp. 338-339, fig. 197, 
refers wholly or in part to affaber. The habits of the two species seem 
very similar. 
Alcides affaber occurs at Coimbatore and bores in the shoots of cotton Mr. Ramakrishna 
and bhindi. A. leopardus is not found in Coimbatore. PYSBK. 
Alcides leopardus has been reared at Pusa from larve boring the Mr. Fletcher. 
shoots and stems of cotton-plants. It is scarcely a pest. 
Alcides fabric is another weevil, with a black thorax and dark 
reddish-brown elytra with interrupted creamy stripes. We have a 
record of it from Nagpur “ on cotton,” but I do not know whether it 
was reared or whether it is merely another example of defective labelling. 
Zeuzera coffee [“* South Indian Insects,” p. 446, fig. 323] very occa- 
sionally bores into cotton-plants but is not a pest of cotton in India. 
It has been noticed in cotton in Ceylon and Burma. 
A few insects have been noted to damage cotton-plants by gnawing 
the bark. These are :— 
Celosterna spinator. 
Episomus lacerta 
Celosterna spinator [“* South Indian Insects,” p. 325, fig. 180] has been 
recorded occasionally to eat the bark of cotton-plants but is not a regular 
pest of cotton. 
Episomus lacerta [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 327-328, fig. 184] 
also occasionally nibbles the bark of cotton-bushes, but is scarcely a 
pest. 
The roots of the cotton-plant are attacked by :— 
Termites. 
Myllocerus 11-pustulatus. 
Termites of various species will attack any cotton-plants that are 
injured or unhealthy but they are scarcely regular pests of healthy 
plants. 
The larve of Myllocerus 11-pustulatus, whose life-history is shown 
in the coloured plate issued last year, live in the soil and feed on small 
roots of various kinds. The adults may therefore damage the leaves, 
and the larve the roots, of the cotton-plant and the insect is thus doubly 
a pest, although it is difficult to estimate how much damage is done below 
ground. The adult weevils can be collected and destroyed and this will 
reduce the damage by the next generation of larve. 
