Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ratiram. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ratiram. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ghosh. 
Mr. Andrews. 
Mr. Ghosh. 
62 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
The next crop 1s 
Baka (Vicia faba). 
We seem to have no pest definitely noted on this. 
A Stemfly is found in the Chanda District of the Central Provinces. 
The next crop on my list is 
Lentit (Lens esculenta). [Masur-Hind.] 
Here again we have no pests definitely recorded. Does anyone 
know of any ? 
An Aphid is very serious in the Northern districts of the Central 
Provinces—Jubbulpur, Mandla, Bilaspur, and Raipur. It is kept in 
check by Coccinella septempunctata. 
Liogryllus bimaculatus also attacks the pods and eats the seeds. 
These insects are so abundant in one particular village that it has been 
called Jhingari, meaning “full of crickets.” As regards control, heaps 
of masur plants are put down here and there in the fields and the crickets 
are attracted to these and can be killed there. 
The next crop is 
Pea (Pisum sativum). 
| Matar—Hind. | 
Pea seedlings are attacked by 
Agromyza sp. 
Agrotis flammatra. 
As regards Agromyza the young seedlings are attacked by larve 
which tunnel in the stem and often do serious damage by killing off a 
large proportion of the young plants. Mr. Ghosh, will you tell us some- 
thing about it ? 
The pea stem Agromyza has been under observation for the last few 
years at Pusa and in the neighbourhood. It attacks seedlings mostly 
and damages grown-up plants only occasionally and to a much less 
extent. It attacks both Piswm satwwum and Pisum arvense but in some 
years one is attacked badly and in other years the other is similarly 
bad. I am not in a position to explain the reason why sometimes one 
crop is attacked and sometimes another. The attack has been observed 
to be so bad as to destroy whole fields. Unfortunately the attack cannot 
be detected until after the damage has been done. 
I have found tobacco decoction useful against a leaf-mining Agromyza. 
Perhaps it might do in this case. 
But the pea Agromyza is not a leaf-miner. The maggot works just 
near or even below the soil-surface and under the bark of the stem, 
