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collection contains specimens from Dehra Dun, Pusa, Chapra, Igatpuri. 

 Surat, Betul, Trivandriun, PoUibetta and Sidapur in S. Coorg, and 

 from S. Kanara, whilst Arrow also records it from Sahibganj (Bengal)., 

 Purneah District, Bangalore and Ceylon. 



Anatona stiUata, Newm. 



Arrow, F. I. Ceton. pp. 114-115 ; S. I. I. p. 282, f. 122 ; Proc. 

 Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 182, 188, 200, 201. 

 This species seems to be confined practically to the Western Ghats, 

 and Deccan and surrounding tracts and has been recorded from Khan- 

 desh, Poona, Nagpur, Bellary aud Bangalore. In Bellary and Bangalore 

 it occurs on cholam and ragi and at Poona it occurs on bajra earheads„ 

 feeding on the pollen and unripe grains. It occurs at Poona every 

 year but was particularly bad in 1918. At Poona control by means of 

 light-traps has been tried, but these were found to be useless. The. 

 Pusa collection contains one poor specimen. 



Prctcelia fiisca, Hbst. 

 Arrow, F. I. Get. pp. 154-155, f. 34. 



We have this from Insein and from Pusa, where it was bred from 

 larvae found in farmyard manure. 



Also known from Calcutta, Ghapra, Cachar, Bhamo, Mandalay, 

 Rangoon and ranges through Tenasserim and Siam to S. Ghina, the. 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Polynesia, N. Queensland and 

 Mauritius (Arrow). 



Ridley says that at Singapore the larvae are very injurious to Cannas. 

 and other cultivated plants, on whose roots they feed. In Queensland 

 the adult beetle attacks nests of a Trigona, probably for the sake of tha- 

 stored honey (Arrow). 



Protwlia albogidtata , Vig. 

 Arrow, F. I. Ceton. p. 162-163 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 182. 



At Coimbatore and Bangalore the adult has been found on earheads. 

 of cholam to which a little damage is done. At Pusa the adult beetle 

 has been found at roots of Panicum. We also have it from Kanara 

 Belgaum, Mysore, Surat, Chapra and Dehra Dun and Arrow also records. 

 it from Eanchi and Kandv. ' 



