Mr. Shroff. 
Mr. Gupta. 
Mr. Ramachandra 
Rao. 
Mr. Andrews. 
Mr. Ghosh. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishua 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fietcher. 
Mr. Ramakriskna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
168 PROCEEDINGS OF LHE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
In Lower Burma there is a local belief in the efficacy of the leaves of 
a particular plant, whose exact name I cannot give. These leaves are 
thrown in the irrigation water, or in the water standing in the fields ; 
they give out an offensive smell which is believed to drive away the 
beetles. 
In Assam Hispa armigera is a very bad pest. Nothing has yet 
been found useful to check it. 
In Madras hand-netting has been found quite useful. 
I have noticed an ege-parasite of Hispa armagera and on one occasion 
the eges were found parasitized in fairly large numbers. 
My Assistant reared Hispa armagera from grasses. 
In the neighbourhood of Pusa Hispa armigera occurs every year, 
but in small numbers. 
Leptispa pygmea is figured and described in “South Indian Insects ”’, 
pp. 313-314, fig. 165, and we have since issued a coloured plate showing 
the life-history. It is a species which seems to be confined to Southern 
India and Bombay. We have some specimens labelled “ Pusa; R.M.P.; 
TX 1912” but I believe that these specimens really came from Travan- 
core and were mislabelled. It occurs as a pest chiefly in South Kanara, 
Malabar, Travancore, Cochin and Mysore. In Bombay it occurs as 
far north as Bassein Fort but it does not seem to be a pest in Bombay. 
Indeed, its activities in the pest line seem to be confined to districts 
with a heavy rainfall, and it is said to be worst in wet weather. The 
life-history is briefly described in my book and control will be much as for 
Hispa, by collection in bag-nets or hand-nets. 
In Southern India it is found all along the West Coast and perhaps 
the Coconada Division is its limit which it does not appear to have 
crossed yet. 
Hapalochrus fasciatus is a Melyrine Malacodermid which was found 
on rice in small numbers at Pusa in July 1915 and which we also have 
from Chapra “on rice’. It is not known to be a pest. 
Oides affinis [“ South Indian Insects’, p. 313, fig. 164] was found 
on paddy at Shoranore, in Malabar, in July and August, but it seems 
very doubtful whether it really feeds on paddy. The allied O. bipunctata 
feeds as a larva on Vitis trifolia. 
It was once found in laree numbers on paddy at Shoranore, but has 
never been reported again. 
Tanymecus chloroleucus has been found on paddy on two occasions at 
Pusa, 7’. indicus at Pusa and Chapra, and 7’. hispidus at Pusa ; but none 
of these are pests. 
Myllocerus discolor and M.-blandus have been found on paddy at 
Pusa, and M. dentifer at Shoranore ; but none of these are pests. 
