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PROCEEDIXGS OF THE THIRD EXTOMOLOGlCAL MEETING 



. Ramakrishna 



?ar. 



. Fletcher. 



Senior-White. 



Fielcher. 



This was discussed at our last Meeting and I do not think there is^ 

 anything new to add. 



{CumhuFhj.) 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 178, 202, (1917). 



This fly also occurs at Coimbatore, the larva boring in ciimbu and 

 Panicum miliaceiim. 



To me this seems to be the same as the Cholam Fly. 



Mr. Ballard studied these Anthomyiads and concluded that the 

 cholam and.cwnbn flies were distinct. 



{Undetermined? Anthomyiad.) 



We have an undertermined fly which was sent in to us from Toong 

 in the Darjiling District by the Manager of Margaret's Hope Tea Co. 

 (letter of 27th August 1915) ; the larvse were reported to be boring into 

 healthy lime and orange fruits. Probably the same fly is also found 

 boring into orange fruits in the Nilgiris. 



This is probably the same as the " Tomato fly " referred to Proc. 

 Second Entl. Meeting, p. 178 (1917), as attacking rotting fruits and 

 vegetable matter generally. 



In Ceylon I have also bred an Anthomyiad from brinjal. 



Trypaneid^. 



Dacus (Leptoxyda) longistylus, Wied. 



' Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Res., VII, 101 (Oct. 191G). 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 137 (1917). 



Occurs at Coimbatore, Nagpur, Bellary and Puri, and probably 

 throughout the Plains of India, the larva boring in the fruit of Calotropis 

 and damaging the floss. 



Dacus brevistylus, Bezzi (1908). 



Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Res., YII, 101 (Oct. 1916). 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 243, 304. 



Recorded by Bezzi from Hagari, Cuddapah, and Coimbatore. Attacks 

 melons, water-melons and cultivated Cucurbits. We have this species 

 from Triplicane, Madras, larva in bitter gourd fruit ; Siddhout, Cuddapah, 

 larva in melons ; Nagpur, larva in Lagenaria vidgaris. 



Control may be attained by picking and destroying the early attacked 

 fruits. 



