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attacking young bamboo shoots, are recorded. Eublemma ditnidialis, F. 

 {hemirhoda, Wlk.) sometimes causes serious damage to Phaseolus 

 mungo, usually in association with other Lepidopterous larvae such as 

 Catochrysops cnejus, Eucosma melanaula and Anarsia ephippias. 

 The larvae bore into the flower-buds, flowers and seed-pods, eating out 

 their contents. Several flowers are tied together with silk, thus 

 concealing the working larva. Pupation occurs in a cocoon in any 

 convenient shelter and lasts from 7 to 1 1 days. 



The PyraUd, Polyocha saccharella, Ddgn., the larva of which bores 

 in sugar-cane, is noted as being identical with Papua depressella, 

 Swinh., which is now placed by Hampson in the genus Emmalocera. 

 Another sugar-cane pest, Anerastia ahlutella, Z. [R.A.E., A, i, 169], 

 is now placed in the genus Raphimetopus, Hmp., and A. bimacidella, 

 Rag., is a synonym of it. The pests of red gram recorded as Laspeyresia 

 trichocrossa [R.A.E., A, iv, 439] and Eucosma ludicra, Meyr., are now 

 considered to be synonyms of Eucosma critica, Meyr. 



The predaceous insects recorded include an Elaterid, Agrypnus 

 fuscipes ; the larva, which is redescribed, lives under the soil surface 

 and is predaceous on cockchafer grubs. In confinement it feeds 

 readily on the caterpillars of Prodenia litura, Utetheisa puIcJiella, 

 Papilio demoleus, Bomhyx mori, etc., Lepidopterous pupae and even 

 dead moths such as Agrotis ypsilon. The adults also feed on cater- 

 pillars and pupae in confinement. The normal life-cycle is thought 

 to extend over 2 or 3 years, depending probably on the amount of food 

 available. The adults apparently emerge about May or June. A 

 Coccinellid beetle, Sumnius renardi, has been found preying on Mono- 

 phlehus stebbingi octocaudatus. The larva and its method of feeding 

 are described. Pupation occurred in April and lasted from 8 to 9 

 days. Another Coccinellid, Brumus suturalis, F., was reared from 

 larvae found feeding on Phenacoccus insoUtus on leaves of Sida spinosa 

 in July and in February from a larva found in an egg-mass of Pseudo- 

 coccus sp. on cotton. Pupation in July lasts about seven days and 

 occurs on a leaf amongst the larval prey. It is parasitised by a small 

 black Hymenopteron. 



Both larvae and adults of a Carabid, Calosoma indica, Hope, 

 were found feeding freely on caterpillars of Cirphis unipuncta in 

 wheat and oat fields in April. In October they were also noticed in 

 a field of Phaseolus aconitifolius preying on caterpillars of Phyfometra 

 {Plusia), Remigia and Thertnesia. Pupation lasts from 4 to 6 days. 

 In confinement the larvae are cannibalistic. The early stages of 

 Broscus punctatus, Klug, are not known, but the adults, which live 

 from about March to June, are predaceous on the larvae of Agrotis 

 ypsilon, Prodenia litura, Pieris brassicae and Chilo simplex. 



A list of the hosts of 18 species of Indian Ichneumonids by Mr, 

 G. R. Dutt is included in these notes. 



Mr. Y. Ramachandra Rao describes the damage caused to mulberry 

 trees by a Longicorn, Sthenias grisator, in Uecember. The eggs 

 are inserted imder the bark and hatch in about 9 days ; the emerging 

 larvae at once bore into and feed on the woody tissue. Pupation 

 occurs in the tunnel. Under natural conditions the hfe-cycle occupies 

 4 to 5 months. Cosmopteryx 'phaeogastra, sp. n., the larvae of which 

 were found mining the leaves of beans, and C. bambusae mining the 

 leaves of bamboo are described by Mr. MejTick. 



