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cut, this moth finds its food in some other crop, so that generation 

 after generation exists all the year round. 



Plate xiv, Fig. 3, imago ; ja, pupa, both x 2. 



3. Cantharis rouxi, Castel.n. and Cantharis tenuicollis, Pall. 

 Family Cantharidas, Order Coleoptera. 



On 21st September, 1901, Mr. J. M. Hayman, Deputy Director 

 of Agriculture, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, forwarded two 

 very distinct species of beetles which he says "appear to be de- 

 stroying the male flowers and also eating off the stigmas (silky tuft 

 of cob) of some late maize growing in the Experimental Station at 

 Cawnpore. They appear to be very numerous/' 



On comparing the specimens with named examples in the collec- 

 tion of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, they were found to agree with 

 Cantharis rouxi and C. tenuicollis. In " Indian Museum Notes," 

 vol. i, n. 1, p, 60 (1889), a species of the same genus of beetles was 

 reported to have destroyed a crop of yellow cholum (millet) in a 

 village in Kurnool, Madras, by eating up the leaves. In vol. iii, n. 1, 

 p. 23 (1896) of the same work these beetles were identified as Epi~ 

 cauta rouxi. Cast., and Epicauta tenuicolli [sic. !], Pall. The genus 

 Epicauta according to Gemminger and Harold is a synonym of 

 Cantharis, Again in vol. v, n. 2, p. 50 (1900) Epicauta rouxi is 

 reported to have attacked the " kutki » {Panicum sp.) crop in the 

 Central Provinces. 



On Corn. 



1. Agonoscalis nubila, Fabricius. Division Eysarcoriaria. Sub- 

 family Pentatomina?, Family Pent ai ^omid '&. Order Rhynchota. Plate 

 xvij Fig. 4, imago x 2. 



Dr. Alfred Lingard, of the Imperial Bactereological Laboratory, 

 Muktesar, North-Western Provinces, forwarded to the Museum in 

 April some bugs which he reported as having devastated the corn 

 crops in Ajmir or the surrounding districts. No further information 

 was sent with the specimens, nor is the variety of the corn affected 

 stated. The insects stand as Agonoscalis nubila, Fabricius, in our 

 collection. It was described by the late Mr. E. F. T. Atkinson in the 

 Journ. A. S. B., Vol. lvii, pt. 2, p. 48, n. 196 (i888)._ It has a 

 very wide range, Mr. Atkinson reporting it as occurring in the 

 Philippines, Java, Malacca, India, China, and Japan. The figure 

 shows the dorsal surface of the mature insect enlarged twice. 



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