Mr. Ratiram. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ghosh. 
Mr. Fletcher, 
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Anerastia ablutella has been recorded as a cane-pest in North Bihar 
but does not seem to have been met with during the last ten years. It 
may be a sporadic pest but is certainly not a pest in normal years. 
Anerastia ablutella has been found in Nagarmotha grass (Cyperus 
rotundus) in large numbers in the Central Provinces. 
We have never found it in Cyperus rotundus at Pusa. We should 
like to see some examples if you find it again. 
Termites have already been described pretty fully under the heading 
of Setts, and I do not think there is any more to be said now. They 
sometimes damage cane-roots but are usually not serious pests of healthy 
cane in its later stages of growth. 
Dorylus orventalis [“* South Indian Insects,” p. 274, fig. 111] ocea- 
sionally attacks cane-roots much in the same way as termites and 
requires the same treatment. It is not a regular pest. 
Myllocerus discolor [Fauna of India, Cureulionide, Vol. I, pp. 348- 
350, fig. 106] 1s said to occur in the larval stage at the roots of sugar- 
cane, being a serious pest in some districts ; but this statement appears 
to be over-coloured. The larva feeds on young roots of cane, maize, 
juar and wild grasses, and can scarcely be considered as a pest as a 
rule. 
Serica indica is stated by Lefroy [“ Indian Insect Life,” p. 254] 
“to have been reared from larve feeding on the roots of cane in Bihar 
and is one of the most common species,’’ but we seem to have no speci- 
mens under this name in the Pusa Collection. Beetle grubs and pupe, 
perhaps of this species, were found commonly on cane-roots at Pusa 
in March 1913. 
It is a minor pest, found in the larval state throughout the year 
at roots of growing cane. 
Pentodon bengalensis is rather unfortunately named as it is by no 
means confined to Bengal. It has been reared at Pusa from larvee 
found in May at roots of cane and has also been reported from Peshawar 
as doing damage there by destruction of cane-roots by the larve, and 
the boring of new shoots by the adult beetles. 
Pentodon bispinifrons [see Entomological Note 9, Bulletin 59] also 
occurs in cane-fields, and probably does similar damage. Both species 
of Pentodon seem to be minor pests of only local importance so far as 
cane-roots are concerned. 
Anomala polita is the species hitherto known as A. varians in India, 
but it is doubtful what the true vardans really is, and in India the name> 
has been applied to two different species, polita and bengalensis, so it 
seems better to use the name polita. Anomala polita is described in 
Entomological Memoirs, Vol. II, No. 8, pp. 143-147, and there is 
