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These boxes were alive with weevils, and the wheat is also badly eaten. There were also 

 some samples of rice in the boxes, and these were weevilled. There were weevils inside 

 and outside the tin boxes, but only one weevil could I find in the paper bags." 



A local report, together with some specimens of insect pests, has 



been received from the Collector of Moorshedabad 

 Moorshedabad pests. ,. L , , n . , £ A . ,, ,, , 



through the Director or Agriculture, Bengal. 



The following pests are noticed :— 



1. Three kinds of insects which attack kalai (peas). 



2. Insects which injure paddy by cutting the blades. 



3. Nagore-chand, which occasionally damage rabi crops, both by eating the shoots 



of the young plants, and also by eating the seeds. 



4. Jaba, attack rice and other crops, eating the young leaves. They appear in 



considerable numbers, and in a field that they attack they sometimes destroy 

 as much as half the crop. 



5. Gaudhi, resemble mosquitoes ; they suck the milk out of the ears of young paddy 



of the early crop, late paddy escaping. 



6. Bajarmari, a small blackish insect, which appears in years of high flood and 



eats the leaves of paddy. 



7. Bamani, black insects, which eat paddy ; they are of the size of large peas. 



8. Faring fly, black insects, marked with red, which eat the leaves of paddy, and 



also of trees and other plants. 



9. Kora poka, a white insect, about one inch in length, found in swampy land ; 



it destroys paddy seedlings, and also wheat and other rabi crops, by cutting 

 them off at the roots. 



The specimens marked as kalai pests were found to be the larvse of 

 moths belonging to the groups Sphinges, Bombyces, and Geometres, 

 besides larvse of Curculionid beetles and of Diptera; none of these can be 

 precisely determined at present without an examination of mature speci- 

 mens. Besides the kalai insects, specimens were found of two species of 

 Acridida (grasshoppers), and of Leptocorisa acuta (the ftice Sapper), 

 described in Economic Notes, I, No. 1. 



The Subdivisional Officer of Beguserai, Monghyr, has forwarded speci- 

 mens of two insect pests known locally as Kajra 



Monghyr pests. " _ " ' " . J J 



and Hariharha. He reports that they devour the 



seed-pods and are specially injurious to the rabi (or spring crops) , usually 

 appearing when the wind blows from the east, no remedies being adopted 

 to remove or destroy them, though they often disappear of themselves, 

 generally after a shower of rain or other atmospheric change. He has 

 also forwarded dried specimens of the pests known locally as Bundri, 

 Larha, and Bhua, with the information that they injure rabi crops. 



The specimens marked Kajra prove on examination to be the larva? 

 of a Noctues moth, identical with, or very closely allied to, Heliothis 

 armigera, the Cotton Ball Worm of America. 



