Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Shroff. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Ramachandra 
Rao. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
160 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
and practically nothing is known of its habits ; so the fact that it is a 
pest of paddy seedlings, even though this may happen in a remote part 
of Kashmir, is a distinctly new idea of great interest. 
With regard to non-insect pests of paddy, we received a report of 
snails damaging rice-plants. I went to the place and found some snails 
sticking on the plants, but I could not be sure whether any damage 
was actually done by these animals. 
In Burma snails do some damage to paddy plants. 
Paddy seedlings are attacked by various grasshoppers, but it 1s 
difficult to draw a line between those feeding on adult plants and those 
on seedlings. Epacromia and Gtdaleus are perhaps more often found 
on seedlings. 
In one place in Madras paddy nurseries were badly infested with 
Surface Grasshoppers, among which Hpacromia tamulus was noticed 
in very large numbers. The cultivators tried two methods :—(1) the 
use of long sheets of cloth in the form of bags in which to collect the 
erasshoppers, (2) the use of large palmyra leaves with long stalks, with 
which the grasshoppers were driven into one place, and, when they 
were collected in numbers, they were beaten to death. 
In Madras the Texas Grasshopper bait (bran, Paris Green, and 
juice of fresh lemons) was tried against Chrotogonus with success in 
small plots, but when tried against Colemania the bait did not prove 
very successful. . 
We tried it at Pusa with Chrotogonus but it did not prove at all 
attractive. Perhaps the species of Chrotogonus was different. 
We will go on with the insects attacking the leaves of paddy-plants. 
There is a long list and we will takethe Lepidopterous pests first. On 
my list I have :— 
Cirphis unipuncta. 
,,  albistigma. 
»  msularis. 
»,  loreyt. 
>  convpta. 
Borolia venalba. 
Spodoptera abyssinia. 
Pelamia (Remigia) frugalis. 
Dasyc ira securis. 
Nisaga simplex. 
Mycalesis perseus. 
en mineus. 
Melanitis ismene. 
Junonia almana. 
