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KHYNCHOTA. 
cultivated rape, mustard and allied plants. Stenogyzum speciosum, Dali., 
is a smaller insect, found in widely scattered localities. Bagrada picta, 
Fabr., is the widespread and abundant species, which perhaps comes 
nearest of all this family to being a pest, large numbers being 
occasionally found upon rabi cruciferous crops. It was strikingly 
abundant over North India in the early months of 1909. Strachia 
crucigera, Hahn., is a Malayan form found also in the Assam Hills and 
the valleys of Assam and Eastern Bengal, feeding also upon Cruciferae. 
Agonoscelis nubila, Fabr. (Plate LXXIII, fig. 9), is an ochreous spe¬ 
cies with a very close resemblance to Dolycoris indicus, with which it is 
constantly found upon field crops. (The distinction between these re¬ 
markably similar species is that in Dolycoris the margin of the abdomen 
shows beyond the margin of the wing ; in Agonoscelis , the wing complete¬ 
ly covers the margin of the abdomen.) 
Catacanthus incarnatus , Dru. (Plate LXXIY, fig. 4), is a large and 
brilliant insect, of a bright red or orange colour, the margins of the ab¬ 
domen projecting at the sides and banded in yellow and black, much in¬ 
creasing the brilliant effect of the colouring. This is not a common in¬ 
sect and probably increases slowly but is widespread over the plains. 
Nezara viridula, Linn., is the familiar green bug so common on potato 
plants, which is now distributed almost over the whole world. It is a 
uniform leaf green colour above, in 
some with a lighter blotch behind 
the head (fig. 440) or yellow with 
only green spots. It is common on 
low crops and can scarcely be reck¬ 
oned as a pest. Piezodorus rubro- 
fasciatus , Fabr. (Plate LXXIY, fig. 
10), is a smaller species, paler and 
duller in colour and often straw 
coloured, which is very abundant 
among low crops and is obtainable 
in quantity on irrigated crops, es¬ 
pecially lucerne and senji, in the 
hot weather. 
Amyoteince ( Asopince).—Cazira verrucosa, Westw., is an insect of 
somewhat remarkable appearance with a long dilated femur on the fore- 
