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important, Dysdercus cingulatus, F., being a pest to cotton but no 
other species being as yet definitely known to be destructive. What 
checks there are on these insects remains to be seen; a Tachinid 
parasitises Dysdercus cingulatus and Mr. Mason has found that, despite 
the warning colouration and odour, birds eat this species. 
Largince.— The female has the sixth ventral segment cleft at the 
base. Lohita grandis, Gray., is the most conspicuous of the sub-family. 
It is a large red and black species, 
the male with abnormally elongated 
abdomen and antennae. Its appear¬ 
ance is striking and as it occasion¬ 
ally occurs abundantly on bhindi 
and cotton, it is sometimes taken 
to be a pest. Its distribution is, in 
India, confined to the warm moist 
areas of Bengal and Assam. Iphita 
limbata, Stal., is brownish red with 
pale edges to the wings and prono- 
tum. It has been found in great 
numbers upon forest trees, large 
numbers living gregariously in 
depressions in the bark, the ground 
below littered with their exuviae 
showing that they had lived in that situation for some period. Its 
distribution is also limited, but it will probably be found more widely 
spread in suitable places. Physopelta gutta, Burm., is not uncommon 
in Assam and Bengal, represented in the West of India by P. apicalis, 
Wlk. P. schlanbuschi, Fabr., will probably be found throughout the 
plains ; it is common in Behar in the cold weather. 
Pyrrhocorince.—Antilochus coqueberti, Fabr., is a common bug, 
bright scarlet with the membrane black, found in many localities among 
dense vegetation. Odontopus nigricornis, Stal., is similar but with a large 
black spot on each forewing. Dermatinus lugubris, Dist., is a small 
black insect with short truncate hemelytra, found widely in the plains. 
Scantius pollens, Dist., rlso appears to be common over Northern India 
on maize, bhindi and other crop plants; S. volucris, Gerst., appears to be 
common in the Central Provinces. Dysdercus cingulatus , Fabr. (Plate 
