The leafhoppers Cicodella spectra and Nephotettix Irrescens are important insect pests of rice which cause damage buy sucking the sap in the nursery as well as in the transplante crp.Preliminary studies on natural resistance of rice varities to the green leaf hopper Ananthanarayanan and Abraham (1956)Pathak et al. (1969)and Bae and Pathak (1970).Varieties like ASD 5.Co 25 and Co 29 were reported to be resistant to the white leafhopper. by Venkatanarayan(1971).No detailed infornmation is available on the resistance of rice varieties to the white leaf hopper.The present note gives an account of the comparative susceptibility or otherwise of rice varieties to this species of leafhopper.
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