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44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Heliothis obsoleta attacks tur commonly in most parts of India but 
is not a very bad pest as a rule. Cultural methods after harvesting 
the crop, to kill any pupz in the soil, seem indicated for control. 
Catochrysops cnejus occurs commonly in India. 
And in Burma. 
Polyommatus boeticus 1s also common. Both these butterflies do 
some damage and control on any field-scale seems impossible. 
Sphenarches ¢affer is common in India and occurs everywhere with 
a very wide range of foodplants. It is quite a minor pest of tur. 
Exelastis atomosa is also common and does more damage to tur than 
Sphenarches. It is a minor pest in most districts. 
It occurs in numbers in Bombay and does considerable damage. 
In the Sholapur District control is practised by shaking the plants 
over baskets and a small proportion of larvee and pupe collected in 
this way. 
By shaking the plants, a few caterpillars may be got, but certainly 
“=== no shaking will dislodge the pup. 
The fact remains that some pup are collected in that way, but 
doubtless they form only a small proportion of the whole lot present 
and only consist of those attached to dried-up flowers, and so on, which 
get shaken off into the baskets. The method certainly does not seem 
very practical, but I quoted it as an example of a local control-method. 
Maruca testulalis occurs commonly in most parts of India, as a 
minor pest, the larva boring into the pods. I do not think there is much 
to add to the account given in “ South Indian Insects ” [p. 440, tab. 36]. 
It occurs in Burma. 
In Bombay it does some damage and the picking of affected pods 
is practised. 
The picking of affected pods is not easy. 
Etiella zinckenella. There is a short account in “South Indian 
Insects ” [p. 429, fig. 305] and its lifehistory is shown in a new coloured 
plate, of which I have here an advance proof | passed around for inspec- 
tion|. It occurs all over India and Burma as a pest of pulses and sann- 
hemp and sometimes does considerable damage. Control is difficult 
and we can do little at present. When the crop is harvested the cater- 
pillars, which are then in the pods, leave them and may be collected 
in quantity and destroyed; this is, of course, rather late in the day, 
but it may help to reduce damage to subsequent crops, whether of tur 
or other similar leguminous plants. 
Agromyza sp. This fly is still unidentified. It is figured and des- 
cribed in “South Indian Insects’ [p. 357] and I have nothing more 
to add. 
