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Epacromia tamulus is found in most districts, but chiefly in Southern Mr. Fletcher. 
India. It occurs on maize and may do damage by eating back the young 
leaves and shoots of seedlings. 
Chrotogonus spp. also attack young plants chiefly. 
All these grasshoppers may be bagged when doing damage to the 
young plants. In the case of older plants it is not practicable to get 
at them but grown-plants are relatively little attacked. 
Boring in maize-stems we get :— 
Chilo simplex. 
Sesamia inferens. 
ms uniformis. 
Chilo simplex occurs in maize in the same way as it does in jwar and 
is an important pest of this crop. We have already considered it in 
some detail under jwar and I do not think there is anything to add as 
regards maize. It is of course possible that more than one species may 
be included under the name Chilo simplex. 
Chilo simplex is sometimes bad in the Punjab on maize. Mr. M. M. Lal. 
It is also bad at Pusa, riddling the plant and attacking it in all its Mr. Ghosh. 
stages of growth. ; 
Sesamia inferens occurs commonly in maize stems and S. wniformis Mr. Fletcher. 
has been reared from maize at Lyallpur and Pusa. The former is dis- 
tinctly a pest, at times serious. 
As already noticed under paddy and juar, the larvee rest for some 
time in the stubble and prompt destruction of this is indicated asa 
remedial measure. 
The heads, or cobs, of maize are attacked by :— 
Heliothis obsoleta. 
Chilo simplex. 
Heliothis obsoleta has been reared at Pusa from larvee boring in maize- 
cobs, and this method of attack is probably general in India, as is the 
case in other parts of the World, such as the United States of America. 
As regards maize, however, in India H. obsoleta is not much of a pest. 
Heliothis obsoleta occasionally attacks the stem of maize, gnawing Mr. Ghosh. 
it from outside and entering inside the stem, the part attacked being 
the tender top portion. 
Chilo simplex has also been bred from maize-cobs at Pusa and may Mr. Fletcher. 
occur in some numbers, but we do not seem to have any record of this 
habit outside of Pusa. 
In the Punjab also Chilo simplex has been found boring into the mr. M. M. Lal. 
cobs. 
