No. 3.] Original Communications, 89 



inent ; the usual caudal setae scarcely longer than the hairs of the anal ring- ; without 

 groups of conical spines or definite patches of spinnerets. The whole derm dotted 

 with circular spinnerets of two forms, which are more crowded on the posterior 

 segments, where they are also mingled with a few stout pointed hairs. The larger 

 spinnerets have a simple circular pore. The opening of the smaller spinnerets is 

 3- to 4-foliate. Length 3-25 to 5 mm. Breadth 175 to 3 mm. The insects are 

 found at the base of the sheathing leaves of sugarcane." 



Distribution. — Has been reported from the Gorakhpur District in 

 the North-Western Provinces and Oudh. 



Report of attacks in cane fields. — As mentioned under Scirpo- 

 phaga excerptalis above, this insect was reported in February 1900, by 

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

 vinces and Oudh, as attacking sugarcane in the Gorakhpur District 

 in company with the larvae of that moth and of Chilo simplex (de- 

 scribed above). 



Remedies. — Kerosine emulsion sprayed over the crop should 

 prove effective in ridding it of this pest. 



10. JEdalus marmovatus, Linn. 



References. — Indian Museum Notes. I. 4. 212, II. 1. 10. 

 Classification. — Order Orthoptera. Family Acridiidce. 



This insect was sent in company with the locust Psecilocera 

 hieroglyphica mentioned below to the Indian Museum. It was stated 

 to be doing serious defoliation in the cane fields. 



Distribution.- — The insect has been reported from North-Western 

 Provinces and Oudh and Bombay. 



Report of attacks in the cane fields. — This insect was observed 

 at work attacking and destroying the leaves of the sugarcane in the 

 North-Western Provinces and Oudh. The Director of Land 

 Records and Agriculture, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, who 

 reported the injury, stated that the insect was locally known in the 

 North-Western Provinces as Aukh-phutta and in Oudh as Bhunga. 



They were reported as serio'usly defoliating the cane in Cawnpore. 

 Nothing further would seem to have been reported about the insect 

 in this connection. 



Remedies.— The predatory habits of locusts are well known, and the 

 methods employed for their suppression are numerous. The arsenical 

 insecticides described above, sprayed on, should prove effective as a 

 remedy. Another good plan, if water is available, is to trench round 

 the cane field and fill the trench with water on which a layer of petro- 

 leum is afterwards poured. This will keep out the young larvae who 



