268 PEOCKEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Dictyophora pallida, Don. 

 Dist., F. I. Khyn. Ill, 243-244. 

 Distant gives a record from Indian Museum Notes, V, 43 [destructive 

 to cane in N. Arcot], evidently a mistake for a species ofiPyrilla, pro- 

 babljQ^. ferfusilla. We have one of the specimens collected by Atkinson 

 at Raniganj and identified as D. pallida by Distant. D. pallida is not 

 a pest so far as we know. 



*" Oliarus sp. 

 Dist., F. I. Rhyn., III. p. 256. 

 This was found on rice at Pusa on 10th November 1914. It is 

 scarcely a pest, so far as we know. 



^ Assamia moesta, Westw. 



Dist., F. I. Rhyn., Ill, 296-297, f. 142 [Phenice] ; South Ind. 



Ins. p. 493, f. 380; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 150, 



184, 192. 



We have this from Pardi (Bombay), 23rd September 1904 ; Muzaffar- 



pur, 15th October 1904 ; Pusa, on her, Dracwna, maize. Sorghum, Setaria 



italica, sugarcane ; Coimbatore, 15th January 1913, on sugarcane, 



grasses, c/«ofem, palms ; Tatkon (Upper Burma), 7th September 1914, on 



sugarcane. 



This species is common in the Plains and the a,dults are often found 

 in numbers on sugarcane and cereals, on which it does not seem to 

 breed, however. It has not definitely been noted as doing any damage, 

 but it often occurs in such numbers on cultivated plants that we may 

 well remain suspicious of its doings pending further evidence. 



C) 

 Elasmoscelis plalypoda, Kirby. 



Dist., F. I. Rhyn., Ill, 318-319, f. 155. 

 We have this from Laksam (Bengal), on 26th January 1906 ; Pyin- 

 mana (Upper Burma), on sugarcane, 7th September 1914 ; and Distant 

 also records it from Ceylon. This may turn out to be a minor pest of 

 sugarcane but we know very httle about it as yet. 



Jivalma sp. 

 Dist., F. I. Rhyn., Ill, 328. 

 This insect was found at Pyinmana (Upper Burma), on sugarcane 

 on 9th September 1914. 



