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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Mr. Senior- White. 



Ml: Fletcher. 



Mr Senior-White. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



Euzophera punicceella, Mo. 



Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 73; I. M. N., II, 28. 



Recorded as boring fruits of pomegranate in Baluchistan. Apparently 

 not known elsewhere. No specimens in the Pusa Collection. 



Evzophera 'plumbeifasciella, Hmpsn. 



Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 73. 



Bred commonly at Pusa from bael fruits {.-Egle marmelos) and at 

 Coimbatore from fruits of Wood-apple. Scarcely a pest. 

 In Ceylon we find a species of Euzophera in Wood-apple. 



'N eplioflenjx eugraphclla, Rag. 



Hmpsn., F. I., moths, IV, 77. 

 Recorded by Hampson from Punjab and Calcutta, larva on cured 

 tobacco [?] and Mimusops elengi. 



Pusa. — Reared in numbers on Achras sapota leaves and once on 



Mimusops. 



NepJiopieryx minutella, Rag. 



Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 81-82 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 288. 



Recorded from South India, Burma and Ceylon. 

 We have specimens reared at Pusa from larvae on brinjal leaves ; 

 it was bred in small numbers in August and September 1912. 

 Not a pest. 

 In Ceylon the larva webs together the topshoots of brinjal. 



Nephopteryx semiruhella, Scop. 



Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 84-85. 

 We have specimens reared at Pusa on Sij leaves {Eupliorhia sp.), 

 on Jatropha and on the green bark of Pedilanthus tithymaloides, from 

 Nagpur on " raubatam," from Surat on maize leaves, and from Mandalay 

 on Jatropha fjlanduUfera. According to Hampson, the larva feeds on 

 Lotus, Hippocrepis, Trifolium, etc. 

 Not a pest. 



Myelois pectinicornella , Hmpsn. 



Hmpsn., F. I., IV, 88-89, f. 55, B. J. XV, 29. 

 Originally described from Bhutan but since found in Ceylon, where 

 the larva bores in cacao pods after attack by squirrels. Also bred by 



