THE AGRICULTURAL PESTS OF INDIA. 9$ 



on the banks of the streams in Sikkim ; it is very small x 

 floating like a speck before the eye. The bite of the 

 pipsa leaves a small spot of extravasated blood under the 

 cuticle, very irritating if not opened. It resembles a 

 flea, and is found on the banks of the Kungeet river in 

 Sikkim. In 1883, an expedition was sent by the Indian 

 Government against the Aka, a hill tribe whose territory 

 lies to the north of Tezpur on the Brahmaputra. Both 

 among troops and followers serious disability and loss of 

 service resulted from the bite of this small insect. See 

 Eye-fly. 



Pisum arvense, Linn., and P. sativus, Linn., are the 

 field and garden peas. Like gram, they suffer (especially 

 the white varieties) from frost, and from the ravages of 

 the insect called ' bahadura.' D. & F. Vern. Mattar, 

 Batana. 



Poppy. The native cultivators engaged in the cultivation 

 of the opium poppy distinguish several varieties which 

 differ little in outward appearance, but considerably 

 in the amount and quality of the opium they yield. In 

 the North- Western Provinces, it is the white-flowered 

 varieties that are grown for opium. In Malwa, the 

 red or purple flowered kind is extensively cultivated. 

 The insect enemies of the poppy are many, and have 

 been arranged in three classes : 



1. Insects attacking the young poppy in November 

 and December: Acheta campestris, A. domesticus, and 

 Acheta undetermined species ; Grylli, two species ; 

 Gryllotalpa vulgaris. 



2. Insects attacking the maturing poppy in February 

 and March : Mamestra papaverorum ; Noctua, sp.; Bom- 

 byx, sp., the buro bhooa ; Gryllus, sp. 



3. Insects which attack the poppy seeds in the; 



