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India, and occurring on ripening rice in the Malabar district without 

 apparently causing much injur}^ and also on ground-nuts ; -If. discolor, 

 Boh., widely distributed on various plants such as Sorghum, maize, 

 sugar-cane, Eleusine, Hibiscus cannahinus, and trees such as mango, 

 Zizyphns, Acacia, Dalbergia and teak, often causing appreciable 

 damage to foliage, and the larvae sometimes feeding on rootlets ; 

 Atactogaster finitimus , Fst., a common species often found in abundance 

 after rain in October and November damaging J'oung cotton plants ; 

 Lixns brachyrhinus. Boh. (amaranthus stem weevil), found all over 

 South India ; Cylas formicarius, F. (sweet potato weevil) ; Apion 

 amplum, Fst., found on green gram (Phaseolus) in Coimbatore, and on 

 Anacardium occidentale on the West Coast ; Apoderus tranqnebaricits, F., 

 chiefly on mango and Terminalia catappa, the young larvae living 

 inside the rolled leaves ; Attelabus discolor, F., on Anogeissns latifolia in 

 the hills around Coimbatore, and on Terminalia paniculata in Malabar ; 

 A. octomaculatiis , Jek., attacking Grewia tiliaefolia in Coimbatore, 

 and on G. hirsuta in Malabar ; Eugnamptus marginatus, Pasc, attacking 

 young mango foliage ; Rhynchaenus mangiferae, Mshl., mining in 

 mango leaves ; Alcides bubo, F., causing considerable damage to 

 cluster beans [Cyamopsis), m6.\go, and ■pz.rt\c\x\'A.r\Y Sesbania grandiflora 

 in South India; A. leopardus, 01., on a wild plant {Trichodesma 

 zeylanica) in Malabar, and which, though the cotton shoot borer of 

 Northern India, has not been noted on cotton in South India till 

 now; A. affaber. Boh., very destructive to Hibiscus cannabinus and 

 Cambodia cotton in Coimbatore, on Ficits hengalensis in Bengal, and 

 occurring on rice in Malabar, though not as a pest ; A. pictus. Boh., 

 breeding in the main stems of Dolichos lablab ; Cryptorrhynchus mangi- 

 ferae, ¥., the mango-stone weevil of South India, but only causing serious 

 injury when damaging the fruit pulp ; Pempheres affinis, Fst., causing 

 serious damage to cotton, chiefly the Cambodia variety, by boring 

 under the bark of the stems and producing galls, also occurring on 

 Hibiscus rosasinensis, H. esculentus, Sida, Abutilon, etc. ; Athesapeuta 

 oryzac, Mshl., which is not a rice pest, though commonly occurring in 

 rice-fields [R.A.E., A, iv, 127] ; Ceiithorrhynchus asperulus, Fst., 

 breeding inside red gram blossoms; and Cosmopolites sordidus, Germ., 

 occasionally injurious to the stems of growing banana plants in Malabar 

 and the Northern Sircars. 



Species of Astyciis are occasional^ reported as defoliating cultivated 

 plants in Upper India, but up to the present none of them have 

 appeared as pests in South India. 



Departmental Activities : Entomology. — Jl. Dept. Agric, Union 

 S. Africa, Pretoria, iv, no. 5, :\lay 1922, pp. 399-101. 



Attempts have been made to introduce the polyhedral wilt disease 

 of the wattle bagworm [Acanthopsyche junodi, Heyl.] into fresh 

 districts, but the results are at present uncertain. A new fungous 

 disease, distinct from Isaria, has been foimd attacking this moth, 

 and its value as a control measure is being investigated. 



The parasite [Aphelinus mali, Hald.] of the woolly aphis [Eriosoma 

 lanigerum, Hausm.] [R.A.E., A, ix, 185] is apparently established in 

 Pretoria, and it is hoped that its introduction into Natal will eventually 

 be as successful. 



Peaches grown with apples in mixed orchards in the Orange Free 

 State are said to suffer more injury from codling moth [Cydia pomonella, 

 L.] than the apples. 



