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Can you tell us anything about the amount of damage done and any Mr. Fletcher. 
control method applicable ? 
The damage done on the whole is not very much—not sufficient to Mr. Ghosh. 
-call for remedia! measures, so far as I have observed. 
Apparently this insect has only been noticed at Pusa. Mr. Fletcher. 
The next crop is 
Motu (Phaseolus aconitifolius). 
Its pests are probably very similar to those of the other species of 
Phaseolus, but we do not seem to have so many insects noted, probably 
because moth is grown to a smaller extent in this district. 
Leaf-eating pests :— 
Plusia chalcytes. 
Prodenia litura. 
Amsacta mooret. 
Anarsia ephippras. 
Plusia chalcytes occurs occasionally in most districts but is not much 
of a pest as a rule. 
Prodenia litura occurs as a minor pest in most districts. 
Anarsia ephippias has been reared from moth leaves and topshoots 
at Pusa but is quite a minor pest. 
Amsacta mooret occurs as a pest of moth in the Punjab. Perhaps 
Mr. Madan Mohan Lal will tell us about it ? 
Amsacta moore 1s a sporadic major pest of pulses in the Kastern Mr. M. M. Lal. 
Punjab. In Jagadhari, Ambala District, it attacked the moth crop 
seriously in July and August 1914. Light-traps were used and found 
successful, nearly 5,000 moths being collected in a fortnight. This pest 
was bad in 1913 also, but nothing was done last year to control it. 
In what stage was the crop attacked ? Mr. Fletcher. 
The plants were still young. Mr. M. M. Lal. 
When were these light-traps used ? Mr. Fletcher. 
Yrom 5th to 17th July. - Mr. M. M. Lal. 
Amsacta moore occurs on moth in North Gujarat also. Mr. Jhaveri. 
The next crop is Mr. Fletcher. 
LABiaB (Dolichos Lablab). 
[|Sem—Hind. Val-Gujarat. Shima-Bengal.] 
We have a long list of insect pests of this crop, but many are the same 
as those we have already had on other pulses. 
The seedlings are sometimes attacked by termites, as is the case in 
many other crops. 
