PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 61 
crop in the field. The damage done is very similar to that done to 
gingelly and the fly appears to be the same. 
That is the Cecidomyiad called the ‘“ Gingelly Gall-fly ” in “* South 
Indian Insects,” p. 364, fig. 224. It has since been described by Dr. 
Felt and named Asphondylia sesami. If it is the same species, it is 
interesting to find that it has an alternative food-plant like this. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
On the leaves and shoots of cluster-bean we get :— 
Dichomeris ianthes. 
Diacrisia obliqua. 
Blosyrus inequalis. 
Astycus lateralis. 
Dichomeris ianthes, also called Ypsolophus ochrophanes in Indian 
economic literature, is a minor pest of cluster-bean, sporadically doing 
some damage. It is described and figured in ‘‘ South Indian Insects ” 
[pp. 456-457, fig. 332], but the figure is a poor one and we have shown 
the stages in a new coloured plate, which I now show you. Its occur- 
rence on cluster-bean is mostly of importance as this crop acts as an 
alternative food-plant in places where indigo and lucerne, to which it is 
sometimes destructive, are grown. : 
Diacrisia obliqua is a sporadic pest of cluster-bean, chiefly in Bihar 
and Assam. Doubtless other Arctiad larve (Amsacta, etc.) also occur 
on this crop, but we seem to have tiv exact records. 
Blosyrus inequalis, a Curculionid beetle, was found on cluster-bean 
at Hadagalli, and Astycus lateralis, another weevil, at Pusa, but neither 
is of any importance. 
Boring in the stem of cluster-bean we have dlcides bubo recorded 
from Villapuram and South Kanara, but it is not much of a pest so far 
as we know. 
Amongst sucking insects on cluster-bean we get :— 
Coptosoma spp. 
Aphids 
Mites. 
Coptosoma is probably of minor importance as a pest and, when it 
occurs, is best controlled by hand-nets. Aphids and Mites sometimes 
do some damage. 
Aphids occur on guar at Nadiad, in North Gujarat, and Mites are Mr. Jhaveri. 
very bad on this crop in Gujarat. 
Any control measures tried 2 Mr. Fletcher. 
Dusting with Lime and Sulphur has been tried and found successful. Mr, Jhaveri. 
