t\ Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V. 



III.-IDENTIFICATION OF INSECT PESTS INJURIOUS TO 

 CROPS OF VARIOUS KINDS, FORWARDED 

 TO THE INDIAN MUSEUM DURING 

 THE YEAR 1898. 



1 . Specimens of immature insects forwarded by the Secretary of 

 the Agri. -Horticultural Society of India, as eating up hundreds of 

 bigahs of crops in Jamalpore. These appeared to be the larvae of the 

 Noctues moth Heliothis armigera, Hubn. 



2. From the same officer were received specimens of an insect 

 doing considerable injury to growing indigo in the Allahabad District. 

 The insect proved to be a bug of the family Pentatomidse. They are 

 identical with Apinis concinna, Dallas, which has previously been 

 reported as attacking rabi crops in the North-West Provinces ; vide 

 Indian Museum Notes, Vol. I, pp. in and 127. 



3. Specimens of an insect locally called ' korapoka ' were for- 

 warded by the Collector of Murshidabad as injurious to crops. 



This appeared to be the immature form of a beetle belonging to the 

 family Scarabaeidae, sub-family Melolonthini. 



4. Specimens sent by the Professor of Madras College of Agricul- 

 ture as causing injury to Dholl [Cajanus indicus), grown in the Gov- 

 ernment Farm, Saidapet, were identified as belonging to the species 

 Mylabris pustulata, Thunb. a Cantharid beetle reported for the first 

 time as a pest to agriculture. (See plate III, fig. 2.) 



5. Insects said to have caused great damage to the bhada dhan in 

 the Sub-division of Bettiah. These were identified with Leptocorisa 

 acuta, Thunb., the common rice sapper of Bengal. The specimens 



were forwarded by the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, 



Bengal. 



6. Insects doing damage to the green leaves of the potato plants 

 in Shillong were sent by the Officiating Director, Land Records and 

 Agriculture, Assam. These proved to be a Cantharid beetle belonging 

 to the genus Epicauta. 



The specimen being new to the Museum Collection. 



