THE AGRICULTURAL PESTS OF INDIA. 63 



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Gaeana maculata, one of the family Cicadidre, is black 

 with yellow spots. 



Galeodes araneoides, one of the Solpugidse, a family of 

 the class Arachnida, is a great spider of the Central Asia 

 steppes. They move abroad at night ; seize and eat all 

 weaker creatures, birds, bats, musk rats. G. fatalis has 

 been known to kill a sparrow. There are thirty to thirty- 

 five species, and they attack and eat their own species. 

 Camels and sheep are said to die from their attacks. 



Gamasus telarius (or Acarus telarius) is the scarlet 

 mite or red spider. It pierces and imbibes the juices of 

 the poppy leaves, and envelopes them in a delicate but 

 closely-woven web, which so checks transpiration, that 

 ultimately the plant becomes dry and withered. It 

 avoides the poppy in its milk-sap stage. It is most 

 abundant in hot, dry seasons. J. Scott. 



Ghoon is a Hindi generic name for the wood-boring 

 Xylophagi. Nothing comes amiss to them, bamboos, 

 cereal grains, dried drugs, cheroots, pasteboard, books, 

 timber, and even furniture made up of the light woods, 

 although painted and in daily use, will be attacked and 

 eaten by them ; but it is the spongy and soft woods and 

 the white or sap-wood that they attack. Natives of 

 India destroy the ghoon by immersing the affected 

 articles in water for some weeks. E. T. 



Girwi. A blight or rust of Hindustan causing the grain 

 crops to assume a brick-dust colour. It awaits identifica- 

 tion. 



Glossina morsitans, Westw., the tse-tse or spear-fly, is 

 called Zebud in the Chaldean version of the Bible, Zimb 



