PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 5] 
Diacrisia obliqua. 
Herse convolvult. 
Prodenia litura. 
Colemania sphenarrordes. 
Anarsia ephippras. 
Gnathospastoides roux. 
Azazia rubricans. This is described and figured in “ South Indian 
Insects ” (p. 389, fig. 254). It is a minor, sporadic pest in Bihar and 
Madras. Control by hand-picking of larve and cultivation after 
harvest to destroy pupe. 
It occurs on the leaves throughout the Madras Presidency. Mr. Ramakrishna 
eee ths Ayyar. 
Nacoleia indicata. This is described and figured in ‘‘ South Indian Mr. Fletcher. 
Insects” (pp. 433-434, fig. 309). It has been reared at Pusa on wrid 
and is probably a minor pest of Phaseolus throughout India. 
Plusia chaleytes occurs throughout India but is a very ninor pest 
of Phaseolus as a rule. 
Diacrisia obliqua does great damage to leaves of Phaseolus in Bihar 
and Bengal. 
It isthe most important of all the leaf-eating pests in Bihar. Mr. Ghosh. 
We will come to it later on under “ Jute.” Mr. Fletcher. 
Herse convolvuli. This is described and figured in “ South Indian 
Insects ” (pp. 401-402, fig. 272) and we have since issued a coloured plate 
showing the lifehistory. It has been reared on mung at Samalkota and 
on urid at Kendrapara, in Orissa. It is an occasional minor pest of 
Phaseolus. 4 
Prodenia litura (described and figured in “South Indian Insects,” 
p- 377, tab. 19) has been reared from urid at Pusa. 
Next to Diacrisia obliqua this is the most important leaf-eating Mr. Ghosh 
pest of urid and mung. The caterpillars require to be tackled by Hanae 
picking whilst they are young and are still gregarious. 
Colemania sphenarioides (“ South Indian Insects,” p. 527, tab. 48) mr. Fletcher. 
attacks Phaseolus together with various other crops in the Beilary Dis- . 
trict and in Mysore. 
Anarsia ephippias was reared at Nagpur on urid in August 1910 
and also at Pusa on urid topshoots and boring pods of mung. , ; 
There is a small caterpillar, | am not certain whether it is Anarsia, Mr. Shroff 
which bores the topshoots of urid at Mandalay. 
Gnathospastoides rouxi |“ South Indian Insects,” p. 302, fig. 147] Mr. Fletcher. 
has been found on wrid leaves at Pusa but is scarcely a pest. ; 
The sucking insects on urid and mung include :— 
Coptosoma cribraria. 
