Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Gupta. 
Mr. Ratiram. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Sen. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
162 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
That seems to confirm the experience in America, but we require 
a number of exact records of the occurrence of this, and all other com- 
mon insects, before we can be in a position to prophecy regarding out- 
breaks of insect pests. 
Was anything done in Assam to control this insect ? 
The caterpillars could be found on rice-plants from just after dusk 
until morning, so a rope was dragged over the crop from 6 p.m. to 10 P.M. 
and again early in the morning, to disturb the caterpillars. Heaps of 
yrasses were also placed in the fields during noon-time and the cater- 
pillars came under these heaps to take shelter, and were there collected 
and destroyed. 
In the Central Provinces C. unipuncta has been found to cut green 
ears of paddy. 
Cirphis albistigma has occurred at Manganallur, in the Tanjore 
District in Madras, on paddy just ripe for harvest, the caterpillars cutting 
off the ear-heads ; it occurred in large numbers and did considerable 
damage. This species has also been bred at Pusa from a larva on rice- 
leaves and from another on Graminez (species not specified) and we 
also have moths from Pusa and the Shevaroy Hills. 
In Southern India two outbreaks of Cirphis albistigma have occurred 
during the past few years. This pest is bad after heavy rains and it 
appears when the paddy is just ripening, the ears being cut off by the 
caterpillars. It has become a very serious pest in South Arcot, Ching- 
leput, and the adjacent districts. An Andres-Maire trap was put up 
in the attacked fields and attracted some moths. The life-history 
has been worked out at Coimbatore and two coloured plates have been 
drawn [exhibited]. 
In Bengal Cirphis albistigma has been found to do similar damage. 
Cirphis insularis has been bred at Pusa from larvee on dubh grass 
and in some numbers from larve found on rice leaves, but has never 
been recorded as a pest. 
Cirphis loreyi occurs throughout India as an occasional pest of most 
Graminez, often occurring together with C. unipuncta and hence lable 
to be overlooked. There has been a good deal of confusion in the past 
about the identity of these various species of Curphis, practically every- 
thing that was not wnipuncta being lumped together as loreyz, but the 
true loreyi is readily distinguishable in the male sex by the fan-shaped 
tuft of leaden-coloured hair-scales at the base of the lateral margin of 
the abdomen. 
C’. loreyi has been reared at Pusa on rice and probably occurs on 
rice in most parts of India. 
