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rROCEEDINGS OF IHE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



9._A LIST OF THE PESTS OF OIL-SEED PLANTS IN BURMA- 



contd. 



Pest 



4. Groundnut. 

 Diacrisia obliqua 

 Prodenia litura 



Meloid beetle . 



Monolepla signata . 

 Chafer grubs . 

 Aphanus sordidus . 



5. Mustard. 

 Athalia (proxitrui ?) 

 Phyllotreta chotanica 

 Bagrada picta 

 Eurydema pulchrum 

 Apliids . 



6. Safflower. 

 Fly-maggots . 



Fly-maggots . 



Macrosiphum soncM 



7, Sunflower. 

 Amsacta caterpillars 



Part of the plant 

 attacked 



Leaves 

 Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Roots 



Remarks 



Sometimes serious. 



Minor pest ; not yet known to 

 be serious. 



Once found eating leaves of 

 groundnut ; dhainclia at 

 Hmawbi. 



Not serious. 



Sometimes very serious. 



Stored seed (sucking) Reported " serious " . from 



Taungtha. Also attacks 

 stored sesamum. 



Leaves . 

 Do. . 

 Plant-juice 



Do. 



Do. 



Shoots (boring) 

 Stem (boring) 

 Plant -juice 



Leaves 



Not serious. 



Ditto. 

 Not so serious as to cabbage. 

 Not serious. 



Ditto. 



Once found in young plants on 

 the Mandalay Farm, 



Found serious on the Mandalay 

 Farm in 1918. 



Very serious. 



Found once at Katha. The 

 caterpillars died and, there- 

 fore, could not be identified. 



