Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Kunhi 
Kannan. 
Mr. Ghosh. 
Mr. Kunhi 
Kannan. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Kunhi 
Kannan. 
Mr. David. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. H. L. Dutt. 
Mr. Jhaveri. 
Mr. Robertson- 
Brown. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
148 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
But if there is a large emergence of hoppers, what do you do then ? 
The hoppers after emergence remain on the field bunds for some 
time and eat the grasses which cover the bunds. It is quite an easy 
matter to bag the hoppers there. If that chance is missed, it becomes 
difficult to control them afterwards. 
How wide are these bunds ? 
They are quite narrow strips only to mark the boundaries between 
the fields and are perhaps a foot to eighteen inches wide on an average. 
If the bunds are so narrow it would hardly be practicable to plough 
there to destroy the ege-masses. Do you practise ploughing the fields 
to do this ? 
In Mysore, ploughing did not prove very promising. Our experience 
has been that the eggs are seldom laid in the fields but they are invari- 
ably found in the bunds or the areas close to the bunds. 
In the United Provinces the eggs are found in the fields. 
The local conditions are evidently different. In the United Pro- 
vinces the eggs are laid in cane-fields, whereas in Mysore these fields 
are chiefly under paddy and are therefore probably not suitable for 
ego-laying. 
At Cuttack the ploughing of the fields after harvest considerably re- 
duced the number of the hoppers in the succeeding season. 
Hoppers were reported from Siwan, Saran District, on one occasion 
and spraying with Sunlight Soap was reported as very effective. 
In the Central Division of the Bombay Presidency Hieroglyphus 
banian occurs on bajre. 
Our experience in the North-West Frontier Province has been that 
the field bunds are the chief source of trouble in connection with grass- 
hopper attack. On the Farm at Taru I have these bunds ploughed up 
and the result is that we have very little trouble with hoppers. 
As regards sugarcane, the general experience seems to be that 
Hieroglyphus is only a real pest in the United Provinces. 
Oxya velox [* South Indian Insects,” p. 533, fig. 426] occurs on cane 
in most districts and is sometimes present in considerable numbers, 
I have seen it in large numbers on cane leaves around Peshawar, but 
it seems to be a minor pest of mature cane, eating the leaves but doing 
comparatively little damage. We shall come to this species also again 
under Paddy. 
Dasychira securis is described and figured in “ South Indian Insects,” 
p. 397, fig. 265, and we have since issued a coloured plate showing its 
life-history. It occurs at times In some numbers on cane but is not 
much of a pest. 
