It was also reported from tea and citrus in India (Sethi & Swarup, 1971) and from tea, apple, citrus, pear, Convallaria and natural grassland in Japan, with the exception of Hokkaido (Gotoh, 1970; Gotoh & Ohshima, 1963; Nakasono & Ichinohe, 1961; Nakasono, Yamamoto & Kondo, 1972; Nakasono, Yamamoto, Okamoto & Ichinohe, 1974; Ushiyama & Ogaki, 1970), However, specimens from Convallaria from Japan appeared to have a stylet 18 u long as against 15-16 u in the Ceylonese specimens (authors observations). The conspecificity of at least some of the Japancse populations with" Ceylonese ones could therefore be in doubt.