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beetles and cutting out of attacked twigs. No alternative foodplant 

 is known as yet. 



The adult beetles can easily be haud-picked and the places where the Mr- Ramachandra 

 eggs have been deposited can also be spotted easily and these branches 

 cut ofi and destroyed. 



Sthenias grisator, Fb. 



S. 1. 1., p. 326, f. 182 ; Stebbing, Ind. For. Ins. Col., pp. 377-378, 

 f. 252 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 77. 235, 255. 265, 

 267, 268. 

 AVe have this from PaUtana State, on grape-vines, oleander and other Mr. Fletcher. 

 flo\vering plants ; Nasik, on grape-vines ; Bangalore, adults girdling 

 rose-bushes ; Pollibetta (South Coorg), adults girdhng Erythrina : and 

 Coimbatore, adults girdhng mulberry and Bougainvillea. Stebbing also 

 records it as girdling Tabernamontana alba in Kurnul. 



We discussed this fairly fully at the last Meeting and I do not think 

 there is much to add. 



At Coimbatore it is a serious pest of mulberry. The stages have been Mr. Ramakrishna 

 drawn on a plate [exhibited'], but the length of the hfe cycle is not Imown. Ayyar. 



In Mysore it is not serious on mulberry. ■• Mr. Kunhi Kannan. 



At Poona it is very bad on grape-vine, girdhng branches as thick as Mr. Raairao. 

 one's thumb. 



Ajjmnecijna pertigera, Thorns. 

 S. I. I., p. 327, t. 11 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meetmg, pp. 303, 307. 

 This has been reared at Pusa from larvae in Luffa stem, bottle-gourd. Mr. Fletciier. 

 snake-gouid. and pumpkin stem, and the adult beetles have also been 

 found eating cucumber fruits. At Mandalay it has been noted to 

 bore pumpkins, and we also have it from Chapra, Jorhat and Coimbatore. 

 It is a minor pest of cucurbits, the larva boring the stems and the adults 

 eating the young fiuits. It may be controlled by destruction of affected 

 stems and collection of the adult beetles. 



Ajjcmecipia Jiislrio, Fb. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 30i, 307. 



This has been reared at Pusa from larvae in stems of Liiffa, Cephahndra 



and gvrrach (Tinospora cordifolia). We have it also fi-om Chapra and 



Laheria Serai. It is a pest much m the same way as is A. pertigera but 



does not seem to be so widely distributed. 



