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and soil cultivation round affected bushes ; Arbela sp. ; Aspidiotus 

 camelliae, controlled by fish-oil-resin spray ; Contheyla rotunda ; and 

 Terias silhetana, a butterfly occurring on Alhizzia and attacking the 

 tea beneath. 



Orange and lime trees have been attacked by Chelidoniiim cinctum 

 at Bangalore. The eggs of this beetle are laid in the axils of young twigs 

 in June. They hatch in about two weeks, and the young larvae bore 

 into the twig first upwards and then "downwards, making occasional 

 small openings. They eventually bore into the main branches making 

 tunnels about I inch in diameter. The young twigs die at once, 

 turning black so that they are easily seen, and they can be cut off 

 with the larvae inside them. By doing this, and by catching the 

 adults, the attack in question was to a large extent controlled. 



Senior-White (R.). A List o! Lepidoptera noted to attack cultivated 

 Plants in Ceylon. — Rept. Proc. 3rd Entom. Meeting, Pusa, February 

 1919, Calcutta, i, 1920, pp. 332-337. 

 This list of Lepidoptera includes over 100 species with their food- 

 plants and parasites. 



Senior-White (R.). A List o£ Plants, with their Lepidopterous Pests, 

 in Qeylon.— Rept. Proc. 3rd Entom. Meeting, Pusa, February 

 1919, Calcutta, i, 1920, pp. 337-341. 

 The contents of this paper are indicated by its title. 



Shroff (K. D.). Lists of Insect Pests in BuvmB,.— Rept. Proc. 3rd 

 Entom. Meeting, Pusa, February 1919, Calcutta,!, 1920, pp. 341- 

 354, 1 plate. 



These lists are arranged in tabular form, and give the name of the 

 pest, the part of the plant attacked, and general remarks with regard 

 to occurrence. The crops concerned comprise cereals, pulses, oil seed 

 plants, tobacco, vegetables, sugar-cane, etc. 



Nymphula sp. (paddy case-worm) attacks young rice plants. A 

 method of collecting the caterpillar by means of a native fishing basket 

 is described. Ripersia sacchari sometimes becomes a serious pest of 

 rice, completely killing the tender plants. A stem-boring beetle has 

 proved a serious pest of plantains. The eggs are probably laid on the 

 stalks, and the larvae enter these and gradually bore down to the stem. 

 A slimy exudation indicates their presence. Pupation occurs inside 

 the stem. 



Fletcher (T. B.) & Ghosh (C. C). Borers in Sugar-cane, Rice, etc.— 

 Rept. Proc, 3rd Entom. Meeting, Pusa, February 1919, Calcutta, 

 i, 1920, pp. 354-417, 47 plates. 

 As the borers of sugar-cane, rice, etc., have a wide range of food- 

 plants included under the order Gramincae and even extending to the 

 Cyperaceae, investigations were made with the object of tracing their 

 occurrence in alternative food-plants. The inquiry, which has only 

 been in progress for the last two years, and has been so far confined 

 chiefly to the neighbourhood of Pusa, is far from being complete. As 

 borers only found as yet in wild grasses may be potential pests of allied 

 cultivated plants, they should be included^ in these inquiries. In the 

 present paper the borers of 29 Gramineous and 2 Cyperaceous plants 

 are recorded, but only those attacking sugar-cane and rice have been 

 under systematic consideration. In order to obtain an approximate 



