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PEOCEEDIA'GS OF THE THIED EMOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Bombotelia sp. 



Larvae were found at Pusa, feeding on tender mango leaves in some 

 numbers in May 1917. 



This species is very close to B. jocosatrix but is distinct and is appa- 

 rently undescribed. 



Chlumetia transversa, Wlk. 



Hmpsn., F. I., II, 376, f. 207, Cat. XI, 68, f. 25 ; I. I. L., 

 p. 450 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 220. 



A minor pest of mango, the larva boring the shoots and sometimes 

 feeding on the leaves and inflorescence. Stated to be a bad pest of 

 young grafted mangoes at Poona, boring the shoots. Occasionally on 

 litchi also. Our specimens are from : — 



Travancore 



Coimbatore 



Chandragiri (Madras) 



Poona 



Bombay . 



Pusa 



Noakhali (Bengal) 



Mango shoot. 



Mango. 



Mango leaves. 



Mango shoots. 



Mango shoots. 



Mango shoots 

 leaves. 



(Moth only). 



and inflorescence, litchi 



Mr R3,mrao. Chlumetia transversa is a bad pest of mango in Poona. The cater- 



pillars bore into the shoots and the attacked shoot does not flower the 

 next season even if the larva is extracted. The method of cutting back 

 to 1he point of injury does not seem helpful. We have reared parasites 

 from this species but they do not check it effectually. The younger 

 grafted plants suffer seriously from the a'tack ; the older plants need 

 not be taken into account as the damage in their case is negligible. 



Symitha nolalello, Wlk. 



Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal., XI, 244, f. 86. 



Ml. Fletcher. Hampson gives the distribution of this species as, Calcu /.a, Kaiwar, 



Ceylon, Java. At Pusa the larvae were found in numbers defoliating 

 Lagerstrcbmia flosregina in August 1917. 



* Nanaguna breviuscula, Wlk. 



Hmpsn., Cat. XI, pp. 252-253, f. 90. 



Cletthara valida, Wlk. ; Hmpsn., F. I., II, 384. 



Bred at Mandalay in January 1910 from larvae on Cajanus indicus 

 and at Pusa in April 1916 and May 1917 from larvae on mango inflores- 



