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are generally found here, but they do not make a wholesale destruction of any crop ; 

 the locusts generally feed on dhan, sugarcane, cotton, mangoes, &c. 



"3. Chatter — A kind of wingless insect, with a red head, but the body is grey. It 

 materially injures the dhan and raakai crop. It is generally found inside the plants. 



"4. JBhooa (caterpillars) are of various kinds and of different colours ; destroy 

 tilf wheat and dhan. 



"5. Khaira — A kind of red insect ; does great mischief to dhan. 



"6. Balooi — A kind of small wingless red insect; which eats up the seeds of 

 vahur, kurtJii, harai and hodi, &c. 



" 7. Oadaliia — A kind of small- winged and flat insect ; eats up the roots of barley 

 and wheat in Kartic (October), when they begin to shoot up." 



" 8. Gei'ooi-^A kind of red insect. 



" 9. Hicrda — A kind of green insect ; destroys barley and wheat in Falgoon 

 (February) and Chait (March). 



" 10. Ghagra — A kind of green insect ; is found in the capsules of the gram plants 

 in Palo"oon (February), when they begin to blossom, and does material injury. 



*'ll. Banhi — A kind of small (white or green) creeping worm ; destroys the dhan 

 plants in Sravan (July), Bhado (August) and Asin (September) by eating away the 

 stalk and the leaves. 



^^V2,. Katur — A kind of winged insect (like a grasshopper), about half an inch 

 long ; destroys the stalks of wbeat and barley. 



" 13. Jhasi — A kind of small, black, wingless insect ; destroys both kinds of til by 

 eating away the leaves and the stalks. 



" 14. Phatangi — A kind of worm ; lays eggs and dies soon after ; from the eggs 

 are born worms called Nandua, which creep over the ground and do great mischief to 

 dhan, marooa, gondii, &c. 



" 15. Karwp — A kind of small green worm]; is born during the winter season and 

 destroys the rabi crop. 



" 16. Bhoodli — A kind of big worm, with red head ; destroys hodi, harai, and uri(i 

 by eating away the leaves. 



" 17. Gadhi — A kind of green creeping fly ; sucks up the juice of dhan plants. 



" 18. Jhinjhoor destroys the roots of barley and wheat plants. 



" 19. Bala — A kind of small green wingless worm ; is found in the capsules of 

 qram, peas, khesari and masoori. 



"20. Jharni — A kind of green worm about an inch long and thin, like a thread ; 

 does much mischief to Bhadri crop. 



" 21. Toonki — A kind of grey worm, about half an inch long ; destroys the ears of 



dhan. 



** 22. Phinga — A kind of worm of brown colour about quarter of an inch long ; 

 destroys the leaves of wheat and barley plants." 



The following is from a report, dated Dalalbazar, 12th August 1888, 

 by Baboo Chandra Roy, to the Collector of Noa- 

 khally, forwarded by the Collector of Chittagong 

 through the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal :^ 



" 1. Mahooah — Color green ; winged, having trunk ; injures nearly -j crops when 

 the corn issuing from the stem remains like milk in its kernel stage ; not available at 

 present time, but in October when the corn is nearly matured. 



"2. Shonamukhi — Color black ; one-fourth inch in length; injures the leaves 

 and stem of the plants in Ashar and Sraban (July and August). Almost half the 

 crops are damaged by it. 



" 3. Tutia — Color black ; ^Ih inch in length ; is seen in Ashar and Sraban (July 



