l;]o. !•] Miacellayeovs Notes. 27 



viridnla Linn. — a cosmopolitan Pentatomid which has previously been 

 sent to the Museum as occurriug- ori potato {Sohtmim, Utherosum) halms 

 in Bangalore. The second is a small Capsid, which is as yet unnamed 

 in the Museum collection. Specimens are being- sent to Europe for 

 precise identification.^ 



In a paper published in the Journal of the Agri. -Horticultural Society, 



Calcutta, Vol. VIII, ISDO, Mr. W. Cold- 

 Tusser in tbe Punjab. , • . r. , , . • i c ^ • , 



stream g-ives rurther particulars, or his at- 

 tempts to cultivate Tusser silk worms [A?ithercea mylitta) in the Punjab. 

 The experiments were chiefly conducted in Hoshiarpur and Lahore^ and 

 they extended through several years. The outturn of cocoons seems to 

 have been very unsatisfactory, but as the result of his experiments, 

 Mr. Coldstream concludes that the cultivation of the Tusser silk worm, 

 as a cottag-e industry, is by no means impossible in the submontane 

 districts of Northern India where the Z'lzyphns ju^uha tree flourishes. 



In July 1890 a specimen of the Acridid PcecHocera picta Fabr. was 



furnished, through the Director of Land 

 Foccilocera picta. r> j i a • u i. i p 



Keeords and Ag-riculture, bom bay, irom 



the Assistant Political Agent, Jhalawa, Kathiawar. I'he insect was 



known locally as Khapedi. It was said to breed in June, July, and August 



and to damage the young- crops. Khapecli seems to be the general local 



name for Acridid grasshoppers of all idnds, and Pmcilocera picta Fabr. 



is likely to be only one of a number of Acrididfe of local origin which 



proved injurious to young kharil: crops in Kathiawar and Sind in the 



rainy season of 1890. 



In the early part of September 1892 numerous specimens of the 



,. . ^. , Acridid A'^^flerow,?^ r/r)r5rt/M Thunb., were for- 

 Epacromia dorsalis m Sind. ii, ,, tt t«t ^ -i 



warded to the Indian Museum l)y the 



Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Hombay, with the informa- 

 tion that tliey had been attacking young kliarif crops in the Upper 

 Sind Frontier district. According to a report subsequently furnished by 

 the Deputy Collector of this district, the young jowari [Sorghim vutgare) 

 crop over an area of 570 acres was destroyed by this insect in the early 

 part of the kharif season of 1891. The Deputy Commissioner adds — 

 "these insects appear generally on the lands situated in the vicinity of 

 the hills stretching along the northern bank of the Desert Canal, and 

 eausp considerable damage to germs of kharif crops while the sowing 

 operations are still in progress.'^ 



1 Mons. Lethierry liiis since examined this insect. He determines it as a new species of 

 Calocoris which lie is describing- i;nder the name of Calocoris anr/ustatus. 



