230 rfiOCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Pusa. At Pusa the adult beetles have been taken at hght. As regards 

 control, collection by hand and crushing the insect in all stages is the 

 only satisfactory remedy. 



It is a bad pest in the United Provinces, where we control it by 

 collection in handnets. 



Galervcella sp. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 250. 

 This species was found on loquat {Eriohotnja japonica) by K. D. 

 Shroff at Maymyo on 17th May 1909. 



Mimaslra cyanea, Hope. 

 Ind. Museum Notes IV, iv, 217 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 247. 

 The Pusa collection contains specimens with the following data : — 

 Jeohkote, adults on apricot fruit, chestnut, apple fruit ; Solan, 

 adults defohating pear trees, 29th May 1916 (H. P. J. Peake) ; 

 Dehra Dun ; Abbottabad ; Hills near Simla, adults defohating 

 mulberry and apple (inlcludng wild Pyrus PasJiia), occurring 

 annually at end of May, flying in morning and late afternoon, 

 resting at midday (I. H. Burkill, letter of 28th May 1906) ; Sambli 

 (near Murree Hills) 4,000 feet, adult beetles in enormous numbers 

 in June 1918 defoliating pear, apricot and grape-vine. 

 It has also been recorded as injurious to Grewia asiatica in the Dun 

 Forest {Ind. Mus. Notes, I.e.). 



Monolepta signata, Oliv. 



South Ind. Ins., p. 310, f. 159 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 



pp. 42, 64, 81, 190, 1'95, 200, 207, 280, 282, 283, 290, 298 ; 



Ann. Eept. Impl. Entom., 1917-18, p. 93, 1. 12, ff. 2a-c (1918). 



This is a common and widely distributed insect with a very wide 



range of foodplants. The Pusa Collection contains examples from Pusa 



on grass, Polygonum, lucerne, indigo, ■ arJiar, maize, cabbage ; Chapra ; 



Jeolikote (Kumaon), on grape-vine leaf ; Tharsa Farm (Central Provinces) 



on maize, 3rd January 1913 ; Patna district, on pea ; Poona ; Coimbatore, 



on ragi, grass, wheat, and vegetables ; Nilgiris ; Samalkota ; Dacca ; 



Eaniganj (Bengal) ; Buxar Duars ; Jorhat ; Minbu (Lower Burma) ; 



Tharawaddy ; Myitkina ; and Maymyo. In Burma it is a minor pest 



of tur. In India it seems to be scarcely a pest as a rule although it is 



sufficiently common at times, especially on maize, to do a small amount 



of damage. It has been reared at Pusa from larvae found feeding at the 



