No. 2.1 Notes. Ill 



" I have obtained a few specimens of caterpillars and forward them separately. I 

 will continue enquiries on this subject, and will furnish you with any further informa- 

 tion which I may be able to gather hereafter." 



The specimens that are mentioned were received in such bad condi- 

 tion that little could be made of them. They consisted of the pupae of 

 a small dipterous insect, besides a few broken remains of the chrysalid of 

 a small moth. This material is altogether insufficient, and fresh speci- 

 mens of all the pests should be sent to the Indian Museum. Specimens 

 in all stages of development (including the moth) of the pest known as 

 the Indigo Caterpillar, are specially desired : they should be accompanied 

 by any information that can be obtained about the pest, which would 

 seem to occasion serious injury to indigo. 



Specimens of the following have been received from the Director, Land 



Records and Agriculture, North- Western Provinces. 

 Cawnpore pests. The forwarding le( . fcer j s dated Srd April lg89> 



u (1) Mahun or C/iampa, reported as a very minute insect, which chiefly infests 

 leguminous plants. This is one of the Aphidae. 



a (2) Dentals (white-ants. — Termes sp.) 



*' (3) Makoha, reported as doing considerable injury to Jowar {Sorghum vulgare) 

 when it is young. This the larva of a small moth, possibly the Jowaree Sorer described 

 in I, No. 1 of these Notes, but the ispecimen is too obscure and decayed for precise 

 determination." 



From the Director of Agriculture, North-Western Provinces, has been 

 Further Cawnpore received a series of insects said to be destructive to 

 pests. crops, but without any definite information as to 



the extent and nature of the injury done by each species. The series 

 comprises a good many species, represented by larvse only. The following 

 may be noticed : — An Orthopterous insect, said to devour the leaves of 

 indigo plants ; this species probably belongs to the genus Grotogonus. It 

 has previously been sent to the Museum as destructive to indigo, but little 

 is known about it ; specimens have been sent to Europe for precise deter- 

 mination. Two Hemipterous insects, determined by Mr. E. T. Atkinson 

 as JDi/sdercus cingulatus and Apiwes concinna?- and a large number 

 of the larvse of various obscure Heterocera, which cannot be deter- 

 mined without an examination of the moths into which the larvae 

 transform. 



Precise information is desired as to the extent and nature of the in- 

 jury done by the various insects that have been sent; and the informa- 

 tion should, wherever possible, be accompanied with specimens of the 

 fully-developed forms, — larvae, especially in the case of obscure Heterocera 

 and Coleoptera, being generally indeterminable. 



1 For Mr. Atkinson's note on those species see pp. 126 & 127. 



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