Mr. Ramachandra 
Rao. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramachandra 
Rao. 

60 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
On the flowers of cow-pea we get Zonabris pustulata and probably 
a good many other species of Meloide. They are easily collected 
by hand or in small nets when abundant and doing damage. 
A Sphenoptera, perhaps S. arachidis, sometimes bores in the stems 
of cow-pea, but we seem to know very little about it, so it is probably 
unimportant. 
In the seeds of cow-pea we find a few insect pests, mostly similar 
to those attacking other pulses :— 
Pachytychius mungonis. 
Bruchus chinensis. 
Catochrysops cnejus. 
Maruca testulalis 
Etiella zinckenella. 
Pachytychius mungonis is described and figured in “ South Indian 
Insects,” pp. 336-337, fig. 194, under the name of the “ Green Gram 
Weevil.” It seems to be confined to cow-pea and mung and so far 
is only known in Southern India. 
Bruchus chinensis has been found in cow-pea pods at Nagpur, but 
we do not know what damage it does to this crop in the field. 
Another species of Bruchus occurs in cow-pea pods in the field at 
Coimbatore. It is different to the species which attacks Lablab seeds. 
There seem to be a good many different Bruchids doing damage 
in India, both to crops in the field and to stored seeds, and we require 
to work them out systematically before we shall be able to do much in 
the way of control at least as regards the crops in the field. 
Catochrysops cnejus and Maruca testulalis also attack cow-pea pods 
but we have already considered these species and there is nothing special 
to add as regards cow-pea. : 
Then there are a few sucking insects found on cow-pea, and amongst 
these we may mention 
Riptortus spp. 
Aphids. 
Neither of these is peculiar to cow-pea and ordinary control methods are 
applicable. 
CLustER BEAN (Cyamopsis psoralioides). 
[Guar—Hind. | 
The flowers of cluster-bean are attacked by a gall-fly at Coimbatore. 
Perhaps Mr. Ramachandra Rao will tell us about it. 
A gall-fly was found attacking the flowers of cluster-bean in the 
Insectary garden at Coimbatore. It has not yet been noticed in this 
