48 hidiau Economic Entomoloiij/. [ Vol. 11. 



"The wheat Keery (Larka) is a small, soft, i-jound, green caterpillar. An insect of 

 about one and a-Lalf inch long and on9-fifth of an inch in diameter. It is found 

 usually near the roots of the young wheat plants which it eats right through. It 

 makes its appearance in November and disappears when the plants are somewhat 

 developed. 



"The oil seed Keery (Labi) are small insects. They devour the oil seed in its 

 early stnge. The produce of a village is often affected by them to about 30 per cent. 

 They appear when the rains cease and there is still moisture in the fields. 



" Bhooa, is an insect about two inches long and quarter inch in diameter with a 

 thick covering of mixed white and black hairs about quarter inch long. It appears 

 just after the oil seed Keery {La/ii). The damage done by this insect is often 15 per 

 cent, of the wheat crop. 



" Besides the above, there is a species of small insect called Kitjra which cuts off 

 the ears of the paddy crop and eats up the rabi crops also, 



"The subject will be given more close attention to during the next autumn, 

 winter, and summer harvest seasons, and more information will be collected and better 

 specimens of insect pests obtained and sent to the Indian Museum." 



