﻿3.— 
  SHORT 
  NOTES 
  ON 
  NEW 
  AND 
  KNOWN 
  INSECTS 
  FROM 
  

  

  SOUTH 
  INDIA. 
  

  

  - 
  (Plates 
  11— 
  VI). 
  

  

  By 
  T. 
  V. 
  Ramakrishna 
  Ayyar, 
  B.A., 
  F.E.S.rF-Z.S., 
  Assistant 
  Ento- 
  

   mologist, 
  Madras. 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  Meeting 
  of 
  Entomologists 
  held 
  in 
  

   1919, 
  I 
  contributed 
  a 
  paper 
  under 
  the 
  title 
  " 
  Some 
  insects 
  recently 
  

   recorded 
  as 
  injurious 
  in 
  S. 
  India 
  " 
  (see 
  paper 
  No. 
  3, 
  page 
  314 
  in 
  the 
  

   Report 
  of 
  the 
  Third 
  Meeting 
  of 
  Entomologists, 
  Pusa, 
  1919). 
  On 
  the 
  

   present 
  occasion 
  I 
  have 
  attempted 
  to 
  submit 
  to 
  you 
  a 
  further 
  instal- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  notes 
  on 
  different 
  South 
  Indian 
  Insects 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  

   able 
  to 
  make 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  few 
  years. 
  Of 
  the 
  insects 
  in 
  this 
  list 
  some 
  

   are 
  forms 
  new 
  to 
  science 
  while 
  others 
  are 
  already 
  known 
  ones 
  ; 
  with 
  

   regard 
  to 
  the 
  latter 
  only 
  such 
  notes 
  which 
  in 
  my 
  oj)inion 
  are 
  new 
  or 
  

   not 
  recorded 
  till 
  now 
  are 
  added. 
  While 
  my 
  last 
  paper 
  was 
  purely 
  an 
  

   economic 
  one 
  treating 
  as 
  it 
  did 
  of 
  injurious 
  insects 
  only, 
  in 
  this 
  paper 
  

   I 
  have 
  not 
  specially 
  confined 
  myself 
  to 
  forms 
  of 
  economic 
  importance 
  

   alone, 
  but 
  have 
  included 
  both 
  general 
  and 
  economic 
  forms 
  which 
  might 
  

   be 
  of 
  general 
  interest. 
  The 
  brief 
  notes 
  added 
  include 
  records 
  of 
  some 
  

   new 
  forms 
  and 
  notes 
  on 
  synonymy, 
  distribution, 
  lifehistory, 
  habits, 
  

   etc. 
  

  

  Hymenoptera. 
  

  

  Bruchophagus 
  mellipes, 
  Gahan 
  (Chalcididse). 
  

  

  (The 
  Daincha 
  seed 
  Chalcid.) 
  

  

  From 
  a 
  consignment 
  of 
  parasitic 
  Hymenoptera 
  forwarded 
  to 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Howard 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  A. 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Entomology, 
  a 
  couple 
  of 
  years 
  

  

  ago, 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  B. 
  Gahan 
  recently 
  described 
  a 
  species 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  

  

  Bruchophagus 
  mellipes 
  {vide 
  page 
  513, 
  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  A. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  Vol. 
  

  

  56 
  ; 
  1919) 
  and 
  we 
  received 
  named 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  same. 
  On 
  looking 
  

  

  at 
  the 
  insect 
  I 
  had 
  some 
  doubts 
  as 
  to 
  whether 
  this 
  was 
  not 
  the 
  same 
  

  

  species 
  which 
  Girault 
  had 
  named 
  Eurytoma 
  indi 
  (see 
  page 
  315 
  of 
  my 
  

  

  last 
  paper 
  in 
  1919). 
  I 
  raised 
  this 
  doubt 
  and 
  we 
  wrote 
  back 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Gahan, 
  

  

  who 
  has 
  replied 
  that 
  both 
  the 
  insects 
  are 
  one 
  and 
  the 
  same, 
  and 
  that, 
  

  

  since 
  Girault's 
  name 
  was 
  not 
  yet 
  published, 
  this 
  new 
  name 
  Bruchophagus 
  

  

  mellipes 
  should 
  have 
  priority. 
  It 
  might 
  be 
  seen 
  that 
  I 
  had 
  myself 
  

  

  ( 
  29 
  ) 
  

  

  