Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
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Ayyar. 
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Ayyar. 
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Mr. Fletcher. 
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Ayyar. 
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Ayyar. 
56 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
At Coimbatore Acherontia styx is found on the leaves of lablab. 
Platypria hystrix [** South Indian Insects,” p. 316, fig. 167] occurs 
on lablab sometimes but is scarcely a pest. 
Episomus lacerta [South Indian Insects,” p. 327, fig. 184]has occurred 
in some numbers on lablab at Coimbatore. 
At Coimbatore we get a leaf-miner in lablab also. 
That will be Cyphosticha caerulea, of which we have records as mining 
lablab leaves at Coimbatore and Pusa. It is probably widely distri- 
buted and may do a small amount of damage at times. 
Next, we get shoot-borers in lablab and of these we have :— 
Laspeyresia torodelta 
Sagra nigrita. 
Laspeyresia torodelta, described and figured in “ South Indian Insects,” 
p. 451, fig. 329, is apparently confined to Southern India, where the 
larva bores the shoots, especially of young plants. The affected top- 
shoots should be picked off. 
Sagra nigrita (Chrysomelidee) has not been found in India, so far as 
I know, as a pest of lablab but in 1909 Mr. Green found the larva boring 
into lablab stems in Ceylon and apparently doing some damage. The 
species occurs commonly in India, so I draw your attention to it. 
Alcides collaris bores the stems at Coimbatore. 
Sphenoptera occurs at Nadiad. 
In the pods and seeds of lablab we get a good many pests most of 
which are identical with those already noted in tur and other grams :— 
Adisura atkinsona. 
Heliothis obsoleta. 
Catochrysops cnejus. 
Polyommatus boeticus. 
Maruca testulaiis. 
Sphenarches caffer. 
Exelastis atomosa. 
Agromyza sp. 
Adisura atkinsoni seems to occur chiefly in Madras as a pest of 
lablab, the larve boring into the pods and usually occurring every 
year in January and February. 
Adisura atkinsoni is rather bad in Madras, on lablab. 
Have vou worked out its lifehistory ? 
The pupa remains in the soil from February until October-November. 
