80 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



year to be one of the predators that keeps this mealy-bug 

 in check to some extent. Hitherto " Tukra " has been 

 mostly reported from Bengal but it is possible that it has 

 become widely distributed with mulberry cuttings sent out 

 from infested localities. A Memoir on " Tukra " is in 

 course of preparation by Mr. C. S. Misra. 



Fruit Pests. Considerable material has been accu- 

 mulated regarding insect pests of fruit trees, both collected 

 locally and sent in by correspondents all over India seeking 

 for identifications and advice. 



Frequent reports were received from correspondents in 

 Tirhut concerning Batocera rubus, a Lamiad beetle, which 

 bores in mango trees in its larval stage. 



The Cecidomyiad fly which makes galls on mango leaves 

 and which was figured in last year's Report (tab. IX, fig. 2) 

 has been identified by Professor E. P. Felt as P.rocontarinia 

 matteiana, Kieffer and Cecconi. 



Chcetodacus zonatus (Trypaneidae) was destructive to 

 Peach fruits at Pusa in May-June. The trees were 

 sprayed, early in the morning each day, with a solution 

 of gur and lead arsenate, to destroy the adult female flies, 

 and the attacked fruits were collected and ^destroyed. 



The weevil referred to in last year's Annual Report (page 

 92) as Deiradognathus n. sp., should have been called 

 Deiradolcus h. sp., and the necessary corrections should be 

 made. 



The undetermined Sphingid found on apple at Shillong 

 and referred to on page 95 of last year's Report has since 

 been determined as Langia zenzeroides from specimens 

 reared at Shillong by Major F. B. Scott. 



The larva referred to on page 95 of last year's Report, 

 as attacking apple fruits at Ramgarh, has since been reared 

 in some numbers from material kindly supplied by Mr. 

 Johnson, of Ramgarh, and proves to be a Tortricid, which 

 Mr. E. Meyrick has named as Caccecia pomivora, n. sp. 

 Figures of the stages of this insect will be found in Ento- 

 mological Memoir, Vol. VI, Part 9, tab. LVIII, fig. 1. 



