4i FROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



ChcBiodacus cucurbitce, Coq. (1899). 



Dacus cucurbitce, Coq. 



Howlett, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 633, f. 418 (1909). 

 Bactrocera cucurbitce, Bezzi, Mem. Ind. Mus. Ill, p. 96, t. 8, 



f. 7 (1913). 

 Dacus cucurbitce, F'etcher, S. Ind. Ins. p. 354, t. 16. 

 Chcetodacus cucurbitce, Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Res. VII, 109-110, 



(Oct. 1916). 

 Chcetodacus cucurbitcE, Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 11, 304, 



305, 307 (1917). 



Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. 



The Pusa collection contains specimens from the following localities 

 and food-plants :^ 



Peradeniya, pumpkins ; Coimbatore, cucumber, pampkin, melons *> 

 Attur, water-melon ; Pusa, Litffa (pgyptia:a, pumpkins, cucum- 

 ber, Tricliosanthes dioica fruits, Cephalandra indica stem (making 

 galls), in wild small fruits and cultivated large fruits of Cucumis 

 trigonus, Momordica charantia fruits, Trichosanthes anguina 

 fruits, galls of Vitis trifolia ; Peshawar, melon shoots ; Maymyo, 

 Luffa oegyptiaca ; Tatkon, Trichosanthes cucumerina. 



We discussed this species (as well as those other fruitflies also) at the 

 last Meeting and I need only call your attention now to Mr. Fullaway's 

 paper on the control of this fruitfly in Hawaii by means of a parasite. 

 [See page 625.] 



Hamakiisbra We have bred paiasites from it [at Coimbatore]. 



rar. 



Chcetodacui caudatus, Fb. (1805). 



Bactro era caudata, Bezzi, Mem. Ind. Mus. Ill, 97, t. 8, f. 8 



(1913). 

 Chatodacus caudatus, Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Res., VII, 110 (Oct. 



1916). 

 Chcetodacus caudatus, Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 213 (1917). 



In his paper, Bezzi gives the following localities and food-plants : — 



Dehra Dun ; Shevaroys ; Coimbatore, on snake gourd ; Baba- 

 budins ; Lashio ; Tatkon, larva on fruits of Trichosanthes pal- 

 mata ; Myitkyina, on pomelo ; Taung-gyL 



The Pusa collection contains specimens reared at Peradeniya from 

 pumpkins, and adults taken at Jeolikote, on mulberry fruit, and at 

 Taung-gyi. 



