42 THE AGRICULTURAL PESTS OF INDIA. 



vipers. The principal species are the Cerastes ^Egyptiacus 

 and Cerastes Persicus. M. T. See Snakes. 



Ceriosterna gladiator, a longicorn beetle, which eats 

 away the bark and destroys the leading shoot of the 

 casuavina tree. Valuable casuarina plantations have 

 been successfully formed along the shore of the Coromandel 

 coast, but they have a nocturnal enemy in this Ceriosterna 

 gladiator. 



Chelifer, sp., tailless scorpions, are not injurious though 

 so supposed. They live on mites and wood-lice, eating up 

 these insect pests of books. There are several species 

 widely distributed. See Anobium. 



Chrysomelidae larvae attack the cotton plant. 



Cicadella, sp., attack the cotton plant. 



Cicadidse. A family of the order Ehynchota and sub- 

 order Homoptera. Tacua speciosa is a black species of the 

 Eastern Archipelago. In the China tea-boxes is another 

 black species with yellow spots (Greana maculata), and a 

 smaller black species with blood-red abdomen (Huechys 

 sanguinea). The Cicadidse live upon trees and shrubs, 

 sucking out the juices of the young tender shoots and roots. 



Cicendela Chinensis. A richly-coloured species of the 

 tiger-beetles, is abundant in the rice fields of China and 

 Japan. C. octoguttata of Assam is an inch in length. 



Cicer arietinum, Linn., suffers greatly from frost, if 

 caught by it in flower, and whole fields of healthy plants 

 are sometimes ruined by a cold night in January or 

 February. Great injury also often results from the 

 ravages of the ' bahadura ' caterpillar. It awaits identifica- 

 tion. D. & F. Vem. Ghana. 



Cimicidse, or bugs, belong to the order Hemiptera and 

 to the family Geocores. Helopeltis Antonii is a name of 

 the tea-bug. M. T. See Bug; Tea-bug. 



