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Oreqma bambuse is described in “* South Indian Insects,” p. 505, 
fig. 392. It occurs as a rule on the underside of the leaves of Dendro- 
calamus, sometimes in very large numbers so that the plant is conspi- 
cuously smothered and blackened by a sooty fungus which grows on the 
honey-dew excreted by this Aphid. It seems to occur every year at 
Coimbatore about December and I have also seen it in Bangalore and it 
is probably common throughout Southern India. 
A Woolly Aphid was also common on bamboo at Coimbatore in 
December 1916, completely covering the young shoots and leaves. 
A Fulgorid bug has also been found at Coimbatore inside the lower 
sheathing leaves. 
Seale-insects of several sorts occur on bamboo in India but they have 
been observed little and collected and identified scarcely at all. Chionas- 
pis decurvata, Antonina anceps and Asterolecanium miliaris have been 
collected on bamboos at Poona and identified by Mr. Green. An Asterole- 
canium is common at Pusa and doubtless throughout India. 
Dried bamboos of course are subject to attack by a number of insects, 
especially beetles, such as Caloclytus annularis, Stromatium. barbatum, 
Myocalandra exarata, Dinoderus, ete , but we can only deal now with 
pests of the growing plant. The list of known pests is very small and 
could doubtless be extended considerably by a little search. 
Grasses lead us on to Fodder Crops and we will now take the pests 
of lucerne, senji, shaftal and bersim. 
Lucerne (Medicago sativa). 
Lucerne is attacked by a good many insect pests, the most important 
of which are caterpillars, but the regular cutting of the plants when 
erown for fodder provides a certain amount of control in itself. If the 
crop is allowed to grow for any length of time it is often completely 
destroyed by caterpillars, especially Laphygma eaqua. 
That is a difficulty in the North-West Frontier Province. Lucerne Mr. Robertson- 
or any leguminous crop cannot be grown for making hay because, before co 
the crop has grown to the required height, the leaf-eating caterpillars 
appear and destroy it. 
The caterpillar and other pests concerned are :— Mr. Fletcher. 
Laphyqma eaxiqua. 
Prodenia litura. 
Heliothis obsoleta. 
Agrotis ypsilon. 
Chalciope hyppasia. 
Creatonotus gangis. 
Craspedia defamataria. 
