Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Jhaveri. 
Mr. Ratiram. 
Mr. Ghosh. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
166 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Cnaphalocrocis medinalis [“South Indian Insects’, p. 432, fig. 308] 
occurs commonly throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, and is a minor 
pest of paddy, sporadically rather serious. In the Northern Circars 
of Madras it has been noted that it is the late transplanted varieties of 
paddy that are generally attacked. We have examples reared on paddy 
from Pusa, Poona, Surat, Belgaum, Palur (South Arcot) and Parlaki- 
medi (Ganjam). 
Cnaphalocrocis medinalis is found in Madras in Godavari and Viza- 
capatam. Plants that are transplanted late suffer most. The affected 
plants revive later on but they are liable to be attacked by Schanobius 
bipunctifer. One cultivator, a very intelligent man, tried an experi- 
ment in late transplantation, and experienced difficulty due to this 
insect. No control measures are possible. 
We will next take the grasshopper pests of paddy. Besides those 
hoppers which attack the seedlings and plants more or less casually, 
there are two grasshoppers which are specific pests of the rice-plant :— 
Hieroglyphus banian. 
Oxya velox. 
Hieroglyphus banian (furcifer) has already been considered at some 
length under sugarcane. In some districts it is a bad pest of rice and 
there has been a good deal of literature on it in India ; in Mysore there 
has bee n published a Bulletin on this species and the Agricultural Journal 
of India lately included an account of co-operative bagging against this 
pest in the South of the Bombay Presidency. 
Hieroglyphus banian occurs in Dharwar and Belgaum, but not in 
Gujarat. Bagging has been found useful in controlling it. 
In the Central Provinces Hieroglyphus banian is found in large num- 
bers in the Chhatisgarh Division. Bagging has been very successful and 
nearly 2,000 bag-nets have been made to date. 
In Bihar it occurs around Pusa in the paddy-fields but has never 
been found in large numbers or as a regular pest. 
Its occurrence as a pest of paddy seems to be restricted to particular 
areas, in which it has been found that it can be controlled by bagging. 
Oxya velox is also found in paddy areas in most parts of India and is 
usually a minor pest, occasionally doing a good deal of damage, and 
in any case it is probably responsible for a large money loss every year 
in the aggregate. It is described and figured in ‘‘ South Indian Insects,” 
p. 533, fig. 426, and it is there stated that the life-history is unknown, 
meaning that it was not known in detail. It has since been under observa- 
tion at Coimbatore and it has been found that the ege-masses are usually 
not laid in the ground, as is the case with most grasshoppers, but are 
laid on the bases of fuar stalks, ete. 
