PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 22\) 



Aulacophara atripennis, Fb. 

 South Ind. Ins., p. 312, f. 162 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 303-307. 

 Aulacophora atripennis (excavata), a ferruginous species with blue- 

 black elytra, is common in most parts of India except the extreme North 

 and occurs on all cucubitaceous plants but is hardly a pest as a rule. 

 We have it from Dehra Dun ; Chapra ; Pusa ; Buxar Duars ; Jorhat ; 

 Silchar ; Mandalay ; Hopin (Upper Burma) ; Pyinmana ; Moulmein, 

 on cucumber ; Surat ; Poona, on gourd leaves ; Pollibetta (South Coorg) ; 

 Manganallur ; and Peradeniya, on cucumber. 



Aulacophora abdominalis, Fb. 



South Ind. Ins., p. 311, f. 161 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 

 pp. 207, 302 (tab.), 306, 307. 



Aulacophora abdominalis (foreicollis) occurs abundantly throughout 

 India and Burma as a bad pest of all cultivated cucurbits, and it feeds 

 on wild species also. We have it from Kohat, Peshawar, Haripur Hazara, 

 Lyallpur, Zaffarwal Tahsil (Punjab), Jallandhar, Gwahor, Bilaspur, 

 Balaghat (Central Provinces), Belgaum, Kanara, Coimbatore, Samalkota, 

 Pusa, Dacca, Jorhat, Manikganj (Assam), Tharrawaddy and Meiktila 

 (Burma). 



At Pusa it has been noted especially on bottle-gourd, at Lyallpur on 

 pumpkin and in Gwahor the adult beetles were eating holes in cucumber 

 leaves. At Jallandhar both larvae and adults were found boring into 

 the underside of melon fruits lying on the ground and at Peshawar I 

 found it domg serious damage to melons in the larval stage in May by 

 boring into the roots. 



Control was discussed at the last Meeting and there is nothing to 

 add. 



Do the grubs usually breed in roots ? Mr. Ramrao. 



They are not found inside the roots but underground feeding on roots. Mr. Ghosh. 



At Peshawar I found them actually boring inside melon roots. Mr. Iletcher. 



I cannot find the larva, although I have tried. Mr. Ramrao. 



At Pusa it took us five years to discover the early stages. Mr. Fletcher. 



GaleruceUa singhara, Lefroy. 



Entl. Mem. II, pp. 146-149, 1. 15 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 254. 



This species occurs principally in the United and Central Provinces 



where it is a bad pest of water-nut {Trapa bispinosa). We have it from 



Cawnpur, Shakartala and Bhadra (Central Provinces), Muzaffarpur and 



