﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOURTH 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  MEETING 
  39 
  

  

  Besides 
  the 
  above 
  new 
  records, 
  which 
  include 
  also 
  two 
  undescribed 
  

   species, 
  several 
  of 
  the 
  known 
  forms 
  have 
  been 
  noted 
  on 
  other 
  host 
  plants 
  

   on 
  which 
  they 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  recorded 
  till 
  now 
  from 
  South 
  India. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  also 
  be 
  mentioned 
  here 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Green 
  has 
  since 
  described 
  

   all 
  the 
  new 
  DiaspidincB 
  mentioned 
  as 
  MS 
  names 
  in 
  my 
  Bulletin 
  in 
  the 
  

   Records 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  Museum, 
  Vol. 
  XVI, 
  pp. 
  433-449 
  (December 
  1919). 
  

  

  Pulvinaria 
  maxima, 
  Green. 
  (Coccidae.) 
  (Plate 
  VI, 
  fig. 
  1.) 
  

  

  This 
  Coccid 
  has 
  within 
  the 
  last 
  few 
  years 
  made 
  very 
  good 
  progress 
  

   as 
  an 
  important 
  pest. 
  In 
  the 
  early 
  years 
  it 
  was 
  noted 
  only 
  on 
  the 
  nim 
  

   tree 
  {Melia) 
  around 
  Coimbatore. 
  Now 
  the 
  insect 
  has 
  not 
  only 
  been 
  

   found 
  to 
  have 
  a 
  wider 
  distribution 
  but 
  is 
  asserting 
  itself 
  as 
  a 
  pest 
  of 
  

   more 
  than 
  one 
  important 
  plant. 
  Within 
  the 
  last 
  three 
  years 
  the 
  insect 
  

   has 
  so 
  far 
  been 
  noted 
  in 
  Mysore, 
  Tinnevelly, 
  South 
  Arcot, 
  Madura 
  and 
  

   Kistna 
  districts. 
  The 
  main 
  host 
  plant 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  insect 
  revels 
  is 
  

   the 
  nim 
  but 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  occasionally 
  in 
  fairly 
  large 
  numbers 
  on 
  

   cotton, 
  mulberry, 
  garden 
  croton 
  and 
  Jatropa 
  curcas. 
  On 
  the 
  last 
  plant 
  

   I 
  saw 
  it 
  very 
  bad 
  in 
  a 
  delta 
  village 
  in 
  the 
  Kistna 
  district 
  last 
  year, 
  

   actually 
  killing 
  many 
  shrubs. 
  I 
  think 
  this 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  those 
  insects 
  the 
  

   activities 
  of 
  which 
  demand 
  watching. 
  

  

  Orthoptera. 
  

  

  Traclnjthorax 
  planiceps, 
  Redt. 
  (Phasmidae 
  ) 
  

   In 
  the 
  Bombay 
  Natural 
  History 
  Society's 
  Journal, 
  XXII 
  (1913), 
  

   p. 
  641, 
  I 
  published 
  a 
  note 
  containing 
  some 
  observations 
  on 
  the 
  life- 
  

   history 
  of 
  an 
  interesting 
  Phasmid 
  which 
  I 
  reared 
  out 
  from 
  the 
  egg 
  stage. 
  

   At 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  note 
  I 
  was 
  under 
  the 
  impression 
  that 
  

   the 
  insect 
  might 
  be 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Calvisia. 
  Sometime 
  ago 
  I 
  received 
  

   information 
  from 
  Senor 
  Candido 
  Bolivar, 
  of 
  Madrid, 
  that 
  the 
  insect 
  

   belongs 
  to 
  the 
  species 
  Trachythorax 
  planiceps, 
  Redt. 
  

  

  PhyllocTioreia 
  sp. 
  (Eumastacinse.) 
  (Plate 
  VI, 
  fig. 
  2.) 
  

   During 
  my 
  tours 
  in 
  North 
  Malabar 
  I 
  have 
  collected 
  an 
  interesting 
  

   Eumastacine 
  grasshopper 
  which 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  PhyllocTio- 
  

   reia 
  (see 
  figure). 
  In 
  the 
  Fauna 
  volume 
  on 
  grasshoppers, 
  Kirby 
  has 
  

   recorded 
  two 
  species 
  which 
  come 
  near 
  this 
  insect 
  in 
  general 
  form 
  viz., 
  

   P. 
  equa, 
  Burr, 
  and 
  P. 
  asina, 
  Burr. 
  But 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  could 
  make 
  out 
  

   the 
  insect 
  under 
  review 
  appears 
  a 
  new 
  species. 
  It 
  in 
  quite 
  common 
  

   at 
  Taliparamba 
  in 
  N. 
  Malabar 
  from 
  September 
  to 
  November 
  and 
  is 
  

   found 
  in 
  all 
  stages 
  (I 
  did 
  not 
  find 
  the 
  eggs) 
  chiefly 
  on 
  Xijlia 
  and 
  Termi- 
  

   nalia 
  bushes, 
  nibbling 
  the 
  tender 
  foliage. 
  In 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  the 
  broad 
  

  

  d2 
  

  

  