Mr. G. R. Dutt. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
76 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
As this insect is a stem-borer, how is it checked by spraying with 
Lead Arsenate ? 
The weevils feed on the young leaves. 
Amongst sucking insects, Coptosoma ecribraria occurs, but is not 
much of a pest. 
Then in the pods a Megastigmus has been reared at Coimbatore 
from larvee boring in the seeds. Itis apparently the same as the one we 
have just discussed under dhaincha. 
CHITAGATHI (Sesbania aegyptiaca). 
Chitagathi has much the same pests as agathi, so I need only mention 
them. 
On the leaves we get :— 
Homoptera glaucinans. 
Catopsilia pyranthe. 
Terias hecabe 
and boring in the stem we find :— 
Azygophleps scalaris. 
ErytHrina (Hrythrina indica and E. lithosperma). 
[Dadap ; Coral Tree. | 
Both of these species of Erythrina are grown to a considerable extent, 
E. indica being used frequently as an ornamental tree in gardens and 
E. lithosperma being grown very extensively in the Hills as shade and 
green-manure for tea and coffee. A species of Hrythrina is also used 
in Bombay as a support for grape-vines, so that the pests of this tree 
may be of considerable economic importance in some districts. 
The young plants are attacked by the large Coreid bug, Anoplo- 
cnemis phasiana [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 477-478, fig. 360]. This 
bug is found on large trees also but is a specific pest of young trees by 
sucking the tender shoots, thus checking growth. It is a curious 
fact, which I noticed in Ceylon many years ago now, that when this bug 
occurs in this way on young trees, it usually occurs in pairs, a male and 
a female together. The bugs are fairly easily collected and destroyed. 
On the leaves of Hrythrina we find a large number of miscellaneous 
insects but there are few serious leaf-eating pests :— 
Platypria hystrix. 
Platypria echidna. 
Episomus lacerta. 
Acherontia lachesis. 
Orgyia postica. 
Aularches miliaris. 
