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SOME SOI ill l\Dl.W INSECTS, ETC. 



Distribution. — Probably throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory and Food. — Found living on seed-potatoes, collect- 

 ing in masses around the eyes, and destroying the tubers. Also 

 found living freelj on shoots of Mulberrj . Cotton, ! fibiscus, causing 

 the leaves to curl up and the growing shoot also to curl up into a 

 hard knot. 



Control. — In the rase of seed-potatoes, washing the potatoes 

 with an insecticide before storing, or fumigating when in store. 

 In the ease of attack on Mulberry, etc., the twisted shoots should 

 be plucked and burnt. 



DACTYLOPIUS VIRGATUS, Ckll. 



Dactylopius virgatus, Cockerell, Entom., XXVI. 178 (1893); 

 I froy, Ent/Mem. Dept. Agri., [nd., II. pp. 127-128. 

 Pseudococcus virgatus, Fern., Cat. Cocc, 11. p. ill. 

 Dactylopius ceriferus, Newst., I.M.X., III, No. 5, pp. 24 25. t. 3, f. 3. 



I 1G. 19£ Dactylopius virgatus, dorsal and ventral views ol insccl 

 (enlarged) and antenna (more highly magnil Newstead.) 



Distribution. Probably throughout the Plains of Southern 

 India. 



Lifehistory.- Occurs on the leaves and young \o\ of the 

 I Iplants. 



Foodplants. Cotton, Violet, Acalypha, Hibiscus, etc. 



Status. Sometimes in very large numbers on Garden plants. A 

 minor pest as a rule. 



Control. Spraying with contact insecticide and (in bad cases) 

 cutting and burning of badly infested branches on plant-. 



PULVINARIA PSIDII, Mask. 

 Pulvinaria psidii, Maskell, X.Z. Trans., XXV, 223 (1892); 

 Green, Cocc. Ceylon, IV. 204 265, t. too; Lefroy, Ent. Mem. Dept. 

 Agri, Ind., II, 131 134. Ind. Ins. Life, t. 82, f. 1. 



