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It is easily controlled by systematic destruction of all attacked plants. 



In Bellary we found it in Egyptian cotton. Mr. Famakrishna 



Ayyar. 



It is not found in cotton in Egypt. What chances are there of its Dr. Gough. 

 importation into Egypt from India ? 



The chances are very small since the insect is not found in the seeds Mr. Fletche?, 

 at all. 



In Baroda it is bad in areas of black cotton soil. ^- ^*'®'- 



The same statement is true in Surat. With us it is controlled by Mr. JhaverL 

 a parasite. 



Sphenoptera arachidis, Lefroy MS. 

 South Ind. Ins., pp. 298-299, ff. 141, 142 ; Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, pp. 46, 48, 56, 57, 60, 70, 75, 93, 208. 



We have this from Palur (S. Arcot) and Hagari (Bellary), reared Mr. Fletcher, 

 from groundnut, of which this insect is a sporadic pest, and it has also 

 been reported to occur at Nagpur on groundnut and soy-bean and in 

 Baroda on hir. We have also specimens in the Pusa collection, placed 

 .under gossypii but which more probably belong to arachidis, from Nagpur, 

 on soy-bean, from Hagari, on groundnut, and from Pusa on sann-hemp 

 and tur. S. arachidis has also been noted in lucerne at Bellary, in 

 Jablab at Nadiad, in horsegram in Madras, in cowpea, and in agaihi 

 in Madras ; but it is possible that some these records do not really refer 

 to this species. 



In Madras it is a sporadic pest which has never been serious, at least Mr. Ramakrishna 

 not for the last two or three years. ^^^^' 



Psiloptera fastuosa, Fb. 

 Stebbing, In. For. Ins. Col., pp. 199-200, t. XI ; Proc. Second 

 Entl. Meeting, p. 275. 

 This species seems to occur chiefly in Southern India, our specimens Mr. Fletcher, 

 being from Bassein Fort (Bombay), JIalabar, Trichinopoly, Manaparai, 

 Saidapet, Kumul, Yemmiganur and Beeravalli (Bellary). In Malabar 

 it has been recorded on teak and at Saidapet the adult beetle was found 

 on castor stems. The beetle is also recorded as stripping the bark off 

 young stems of Acacia arabica. It seems doubtful whether it is a pest 

 to any cultivated -crop. 



Belionota prasina, Thunb. 



Stebbing, Ind. Forest Ins. Col., pp. 217-218, fig ; Proc. Second 



Entl. Meeting, pp. 227-231 ; Ann. Kept. Impl. Entom. 



1917-18, p. 103, t. 18, ff. 2 a-d. 



We have this from the Khasi Hills, Pusa, Baroda, Surat, Poona 



and Kanara. At Pusa the adults occur in^August and September. At 



