Indian Economic Entomology/, 



[Vol. 11. 



So far therefore as these specimens enable us to judge, it appears that 

 neither Acridium peregrin mn, which is the chief locust of North-Western 

 India, nor Jcridiuin sticciiictum, which was probably the Bombay locust of 

 1882-83, were concerned in the Madras invasion of 1878. A consider- 

 able amounfc of damag-e was undoubtedly done by Acrididse over a wide 

 area in the Madras Presidency in 1878, and the official reports upon the 

 subject seem to show that while Orthoptera of all kinds were particularly 

 abundant in that year, all over the presidency, most of the injury was 

 done by swarms belonging to a single species whose identity therefore 

 has yet to be established. 



Moth. 



From Mr. J. Cleghorn were received in September 1890 some pome- 

 Baluchistan Pomegranate granates tunnelsd by the larva of a Micro. 



lepidopteroas moth. The insect was reared in 



the Museum and 

 t h e specimens 

 were forwarded 

 to Mr. F. Moorf^, 

 who has identi- 

 fied them as be- 

 longing to a new 

 species of Ehyci- 

 tlda, which he 

 describes under 

 the name of 

 Nepliopteryx punieceella. The following is the description kindly fur- 

 nished by Mr. Moore : — 



" NepJiofferyx fiinicceella. 



" Allied to the European iV. alietella, but smaller in size, grey ; forewintr numerously 

 covered with greyish black scales, but differs from ahietella in not having the marginal 

 blackish dots ; it has a similar transverse discal orpostmedial pale narrow wavy band, 

 and also an anteraedial similar band ; the other markings are also similar. Palpi, 

 antennse, and eyes black ; head, thorax, legs, and abdomen blackish, the latter wilh 

 greyish segmental bands. 



"Expanse of wings -f-^ inch. 



" Habitat. — Baluchistan." 



In August 1890 the Commissioner of Bhagalpore forwarded some 



. , . ^, , paddv plants said to be suffering from the 



Paddv bhght in Bhagalpore. ;,";,. . , - , ■, in 



attack or a minute insect known locally as 



Mara, which weakens the plant by sucking up the juice of the leaves. The 



insects are said to be so small as to be scarcely visible to the naked eye. 



They occur only in rice fields where there is a scarcity of water, and the 



damage caused by them has not been very extensive. The leaves of the 



