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(3) Larvae of an obscure lepidopterous insect which bores into bean-pods. 

 Specimens of the fully-developed insect should in each case be sent to 

 enable them to be determined precisely. 



Through the Director of Agriculture, Bengal, were received iu Novem- 



_ . . _ , ber last, from the Officiating Collector of Backer. 



Backerganj Pests. . .» 



ganj, specimens or insects said to be known as I amari 



and Magra, respectively. The Pamari insect is the beetle Hispa cenescens 

 reported on in vol. I, page 37, of these Notes ; it is well known as de- 

 structive to rice in Bengal. 



The Magra insect, which also attacks paddy-plants, has not been re- 

 cognized under this name, and the specimens, which consisted of pieces 

 of tunnelled straw containing dry pupae cases of a small moth, are not 

 sufficient for precise identification. A Microlepidopterous insect which 

 tunnels the stalks in a similar manner has been reported on as destruc- 

 tive to paddy in Perak (see Wray's Report on the Paddy borer m Peiak). 



Fresh specimens are promised when the insect appears next rains. 



From the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, North-Western 



_ _, . Provinces, have been received the following speci- 



Cawnpore rests. . ° * 



mens of insects said to be destructive to crops. 



(1) The Hemipterous insect Dysderms cingulatus, said to be known as 

 jhanga and to attack vegetables such as the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vul- 

 garis). 



(2) Acridid orthoptera, said to be known as Bhnnga in Oudh and as 

 Auhh-phutta in the North-Western Provinces, and to destroy the leaves 

 of sugar-cane and jowar. The specimens have been sent to Europe for 

 further examination. 



(3) Insects said to be known as Reotha and to attack young sugar- 

 cane. These consisted of caterpillars, which are probably the larvae of the 

 sugar-cane borer moth Diatraa sacckaralij ; also larvae and pupas of a 

 dipterous insect, which probably only feeds on sugar-cane that has become 

 rotten owing to the attack of the borer caterpillar. 



(4) Insects said to be known as Sonri and to attack the roots and cobs 

 of maize. These cousisted of the caterpillar of the butterfly Danais 

 chrysippus, Linn., and also of specimens of the red Hemipterous insect 

 Spilostethus militaris, Fabr. 



Specimens of insects said to be injurious have been received through 

 Chingleput Forest * ne Director of the Forest School, Dehra Dun, from 

 Pests. the District Forest Officer, Chiugleput. 



The specimens comprise : — (1) small insects found on the young 

 leaves of date palms, said to suck the juice of the stems, causing them 

 gradually to wither and die. These belong to no less than four distinct 



