§6 Jndi'in Eco»ow/c Eidamolugi/. [Vol. Xi. 



whicli attacks and destroys the Rice Sapper. The Rice Sapper occurs all 

 over in India and attacks immature paddy grain in the ear, sometimes 

 destroying a large proportion of the crop, especially when the rains set 

 in early. Little is known of its life history. 



In Januaiy 1890 were received from Mr. J. Cleghorn, Harnai, Ba- 

 luchistan^ a number of little cases formed 

 A Biilnchistan gi'anary pest. ni. • -ixii -fi- 



° •' ^ or wheat grains cemented together. It is 



said that all granaries in Harnai have to be examined and cleaned 

 every month to destroy the insect .which constructs the eases, granaries 

 not examined for three mouths having their whole contents destroyed by 

 it. No specimens were received of the insect, but the cases appear to be 

 the work of one of the Tineince raoths, which are cosmopolitan granary 

 pests. The frequent examination required would seem to point to the 

 insects passing through a number of generations in the year. 



Mons. J. M. F. Bigot, to whom specimens of the Bashahr Grape Fly^ 

 were submitted for examination, writes 



Bashahr Grape Fly. o -n • ii i. i.i u ii 



trom raris that, though the specimens are in- 

 sufficient for precise identification, the insect prol.ably belongs to a new 

 species of the genus Drosoj)hila, which might be named Drosophila 

 apicata. 



Further specimens therefore should be procured for examination. In 

 the meantime it may be noticed that the larvae of other species of 

 Drosophila attack both sound and decaying fruit. According to W. C. 

 Fish, as quoted by Packard in his Guide to the Study of Insects, one 

 species of Drosophila, which is known in the United States as the Apple 

 Myy attacks apples, rendering them unfit for use ; in this case the mag- 

 got usually enters the apple through some wound caused by other insects, 

 or, if there be no such wound, through the calyx. Many of the maggots 

 arrive at maturity in August, and the, fly soon afterwards appears, seve- 

 ral generations being gone through before the cold weather, which the 

 insect passes as a pupa in some sheltered spot, the flies emerging in the 

 following spring. 



From Messrs. Williamson and Magor were received in January 1891 



m T- T, caterpillars of a Limacodid moth, said to 



lea Limacodid. '■ ... . 



have proved injurious to tea in the Darrang 



district, Assam. The caterpillars defoliate the bushes and then descend 

 to the ground, where they roll themselves into the characteristic Limaco- 

 did pupal case, resembling a minute potato. Children had been employed 

 to hand-pick the caterpillars, but the numbers of the pest have been too 

 great to be successfully dealt with in this way, and some inconvenience 



' Vide piige 2(>2 of Vol. 1, No. 4, of this serial. 



