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is Carpomyia vesuviana, whose larve feed in fruits of 
Zizyphus jujuba. About 800 pupe of this fly were sent to. 
Italy, to endeavour to introduce the parasite there, but 
owing to postal delays they failed to reach their destination. 
alive.” 
Now, with reference to that there are two things that I want to 
say to you now. We shall come, later on during this Meeting, to the 
subject of Fruit-flies of various species and their control, but it seems 
to me that one very important possible control-measure, which we 
require to know a great deal more about in India, lies in the direction 
of the employment of natural parasites of these Flies. As some of you 
probably know, the matter of Fruit-flies has proved sufficiently important 
in some parts of the World for the sending out of special investigators 
to discover and introduce such parasites, and since our last Meeting 
the United States Department of Agriculture has sent one of their 
Experts, Mr. Fullaway, to India especially to collect and take to Hono- 
lulu living examples of parasites of our common Indian pumpkin-feeding 
Fruit-fly, Chetodacus cucurbite. Mr. Fullaway visited Southern India 
at the end of 1915 and was successful in finding such parasites and in 
transporting them alive, firstly to Manila and afterwards to Hawaii. 
A successful attempt of this kind should stimulate us in India to repeat 
it for ourselves. There is probably no Province or district in India 
in which Chatodacus cucurbite does not occur, and there are few in 
which it does not do serious damage. It is quite within the capacity 
of each one of you, Provincial workers, to get damaged cucurbitaceous 
fruits and to collect the pupe of the flies from them and to see what 
parasites occur in each area ; or you can send the affected fruit in to 
Pusa and we will do the breeding part of it. In this way it seems quite 
possible that we may find a parasite or parasites, effective in some 
districts but absent from others into which we can introduce them to 
secure a natural control of this Fruit-fly. This is a matter in which 
you can all help for the common good, and I ask you to do so. 
From the above extract you will also have seen that we have been 
sending pupe of Carpomyia vesuviana to Italy, to Professor Silvestri 
at the School of Agriculture at Portici, to try and introduce a small 
Braconid parasite (Brosteres carpomyre, Silv.) which is common at 
Pusa. Here again you can all help by collecting pup of Carpomyia 
and by sending them either to Pusa or, better still, direct to Professor 
Silvestri. , 
It is not, however, only with regard to the occurrence of insects. 
that I desire to impress upon you the desirability of exactitude of records, 
