354 PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



13.— A LIST OF THE PESTS OF SUGARCANE IN BURMA. 

 By K. D. Shroff, B.A., Entomological Assistant, Burma. 



Part of the plant j 

 attacked i 



Long-homed grass-hoppers 



Parnara mathias 

 Dasychira securis 

 Marasmia (rapezalis 

 Chilo simplex {1) 



Scirpophaga 



Termites 

 Dorylus orienfali 



Callitettix versicolor 

 Phertict maesta 



'j Abidama prodiicta . 

 V, V Elasmocelis platypoda 

 V ' ' Ricania speculum . 

 Ripersia sacchari 



Leaves 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Stem 



Do. 



Plant-juice 



Found eating leaves of young 

 cane in pots. 



Not seri( 

 Ditto. 



Found pretty serious on the 

 Hmawbi Farm in 1918. 



A larva was once foujj^ in cane 

 at Mandalay. As it died, 

 the species could not be 

 determined. 



"1 Found serious on the Nagu 



Farm, Shwebo District, in 



Y 1918. Not yet reported 



from any sugarcane-grow- 



J ing locality. 



Is found in large numbers on 

 cane. Scarcely a pest. 



Found on cane but not in- 

 jurious. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Reported " serious " from 

 Hmawbi in September 1918. 



U.— BORERS IN SUGARCANE, RICE, Etc. 



By T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R. N. F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Imperial 

 Entomologist, and C. C. Ghosh, B.A., Assistant to the Imperial 

 Entomologist. 



Introductory. 

 The borer pests of .stigarcane, rice, etc., have a wide range of food- 

 plants included under the Natural Order Graminete and some of them 

 have been observ^ed to extend this range into the Natural Order Cyperacese, 

 the plants of which order have stems very well suited to serve as food 



