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appear in myriads during a locust swarm, from marching into the 

 cane fields and devastating them. 



11. Pcecilocera) hieroglyphica, Klug. 



References. — Decticus hieroglyphicus, Klug. Symb. Phys. Dec. i. pi. 25, f. 1.2. 

 Pcecilocera hieroglyphica. Burns. Handb. Ent. ii. 623. Indian Museum 

 Notes I. 4. 212 ; II. I. 10. 



Classification. Order Orthoptera. Family Acridiida. 



Life history and description. — The following is a description of 

 this insect 1 : — 



Corpus pallide flavum. Antennae vix thorace longiores, obscure 

 ccerulear, articulis 7, 9, 11, 13 et 15 apice flavis, Caput luteo 

 maculatum, margine lineisque lateralibus abbreviatis cceruleis. Thorax 

 sparsim luteo-maculatus, dorso lateribusque cceruleo-lineatis, lineis 

 lateralibus arcuatis subinterruptis, lobo postico basi immaculato, mar- 

 gine cceruleo-maculato. Metathorax et scutellum omnino immaculata, 

 Abdominis segmenta tria priora immaculata, reliqua macula utrinque 

 lutea macula elongata supera, lineolis plurimis abbreviatis et flexuosis 

 inferis, punctis denique lineolisque dorsalibus cceruleis ornata. 

 Pedes anteriores cceruleo-annulati, postici maculati. Elytra confertim 

 nigro-cceruleo-punctata alar lacte rubrae, vel potius miniae, apice 

 flavescentes hyalinae. 



Distribution.— Has been reported from the North-Western Pro- 

 vinces and from Oudh. 



Report of attacks in cane fields. — This insect was reported to 

 attack sugarcane in company with the locust, JEdalus marmoratus, 

 above described, by the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, 

 North-Western Provinces and Oudh, where it is known under the 

 same local names. 



Remedies. — The remedies to be tried have already been described 

 under /E. marmoratus. 



Summary Remarks. — This forms all we at present know on the 

 subject of insect pests of the sugarcane plant. That this is all that 

 there is to be known, or that the above are the only insect pests 

 against which the plant has to contend, will, I fear, not be found to 

 be the case. It is a well known fact that the increase in the culti- 

 vated area of any particular plant is followed by the increase in the 

 number of its insect enemies. Forewarned is forearmed, and by 



1 Klug Symb. Physc. Dec. 1. pi- 25. f. 1.2. 



