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PROCEEDINGS Of THB THIRD EiVTOM(jL<)Uic'Ali WEEIl>0 



South Bihar 

 Bankipur . 

 Muzaffarpur 

 Piisa 



Ghazipur (United Provinces) 

 Kumaon .... 



Rabi crops on chars. ' 



Cauliflower. 



Tobacco, cabbage, cauUflower. 



Cabbage, potato leaves, castor leaves^ 

 sunflower, rice leaves, jute, radish leaves,, 

 sweet potato, vrid [Phaseohis radiatus),. 

 lucerne, Jasmintim, groundnut, sugar- 

 cane, Cofev-9, tobacco, cotton (very 

 rarely), tvr (C'ajanvs indicvs), Panicvnp- 

 sp., rose, celery. 



Opium-poppy leaves. 



Apple. 



Mr. Aadrews.-^ 



Mr. i" c makrishna 

 Ay3''ar. 



Mr. Fletcher. 

 Dr. Gfough. 



Mr. Senior -Wh:te. 

 Mr. Fletcher. 

 Mr. G. R. Dutt 



Mr, Kunhi Kannan. 

 Mr. Fletcher. 



The moth is attracted to Andres-Maire traps. 



It did extensive damage to tea in 1918 in the Eastern Diiars. 



In Madras we find it on onions also. 



We find it very rarely on cotton in India, but I understand that it is. 

 a regular cotton pest in Egypt. 



In Egypt it occurs mainly on cotton and bersim, but from Asiatic 

 records we find that it is rarely found on cotton in Asia. In Egypt it 

 occurs on bersim for the first two broods and, if we can arrange that 

 the bershn is not watered, then the subsequent attack on cotton is less- 

 ened. We find it also boring into potato tubers underground ; it is also 

 found on tomato fruits and it is very bad on lucerne. It is not found 

 on castor in Egypt. As regards attraction to the Andres-Maire traps, 

 we find that the female moths only go to the traps after depositing; 

 their eggs, so that this is useless as a means of control. 



In Ceylon it is also found on Hibiscus. 



Have any parasites been reared ? 



We have bred a Braconid and a Tachinid. 



We have a Tachinid in Mysore also. 



The differences in foodplants exhibited by Prodenia litura in India- 

 and Egypt raise a suspicion that different species are really implicated. 

 It would be interesting to compare the male genitalia of Indian and 

 Egyptian specimens. 



Spodoptera pecien, Gn. 



Hmpsn., F. I, II, 264 [Caradnna j>ectinatal Cat. VIII, 252-253, f. 63. 



Has been reared at Pusa from larvae on dubh and other grasses and 

 from a larva found on maize leaves. We have also moths from Peshawar, 

 Comilla and Lashio (Upper Burma), so that it is widely distributed 

 and likely to be found anywhere on cereal crops. Hitherto, however., 

 it has not been reported as a pest. 



