64 THE AGRICULTURAL PESTS OF INDIA. 



in the Arabian version, and Tsaltsalya in the Ethiopian ; 

 the Greeks give it the name of Cynomya, and the negroes 

 of Tse-tse. It is mentioned in Isa. vii. 18. This insect is 

 one of the Muscidse-. It usually frequents the bushes and 

 reeds on the borders of marshes. It is larger than it 

 common fly, and of a whitish-yellow colour. The horse, 

 the ox, and the dog, after they have been attacked by 

 this insect, waste away and die in the course of a few 

 days ; those" which are fat and in good condition soon die, 

 while the others drag on a miserable existence for some 

 weeks. Three or four flies are sufficient to produce these 

 disastrous results. The blood of the animals which die 

 is altered and diminished in quantity. M. T. 



Golunda Ellioti, the coffee rat. See Coffee; Mammalia. 



Gronda, of Hindustan, is very destructive to growing 

 pulse. It needs to be determined. 



Gossypium herbaceum. The cotton plant is attacked by 

 species of Aphis, Arctia Horsfieldii, Cicadella (Typhlocyba), 

 the larvae of one of the Chrysomelidae, Depressaria gossy- 

 piella, Saunders, Endioptis Indica, etc. From the lame of 

 the Depressaria, the United States Agricultural Commis- 

 sioner states that one-fourth of the cotton crop of India is 

 sometimes lost. Now, allowing annually one pound weight 

 of raw cotton to each of its 250,000,000, this at 3 

 annas the pound represents a value of in round numbers 

 Es. 4,50,00,000. Add to this the exported 4,189,718 

 cwt. in 1885-86, value Es. 10,77,72,041, the cotton 

 grown in India may be 6,421,950 cwt., value about 

 sixteen crore. The cotton worm of the United States is 

 the Aleta argillacea, Buclmcr, the Nbctua x}dona, Say. 

 Their cotton bug or cotton stainer is the Dydercus 

 suturellus, Schif. 



The year 1877 in the United States was an unusual 



