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and sprayed with Lead Chromate without any success, but a subsequent 
spraying with Lead Arsenate was quite effective. Pupation takes place 
in the soil so that ploughing after removal of the crop is indicated to 
* kill any pupz in the soil. 
Tanymecus indicus has been reported on safflower at Nagpur but 
does not seem to be a regular pest of this crop, although it is possible 
that it may at times damage young plants by nibbling the germinating 
shoots [see Fauna of India, Curculionidae, Vol. I, p. 100]. 
Laphygma exigua is sometimes a major pest of safflower in the Mr. Khare. 
Central Provinces. 
The capsules of safflower are sometimes attacked by Heliothis obso- Mt. 
leta, which has been reared on safflower at Pusa, Coimbatore and Lyall- 
pur. We have already dealt with this insect several times, and I do 
not think there is much more to be said about it in this connection. 
A few sucking insects attack safflower :— 
Dolycoris indicus. 
Monanthia globulifera. 
Aphids. 
Dolycoris indicus [“‘ South Indian Insects,” pp. 470-471, fig. 347] 
is a very general feeder and is usually quite a minor pest of any crop 
on which it occurs. 
Monanthia globulifera re South Indian Insects,” p. 486, fig. 371] 
sometimes occurs on safflower but is a very minor pest as a rule. 
Aphids are sometimes bad. I saw a very bad attack of Aphids at 
Dharwar in February 1912. The species usually concerned is probably 
Macrosiphum sonchi. 
Boring in the stem and shoots are a few flies but we know little 
about them. 
In Burma the shoots of safflower are attacked at Mandalay by fly Mr. 
maggots. I have brought some specimens [exhibited }. 
It seems to be quite a new pest. We do not know it at all. Mr. 
We also have a record of a fly-maggot found in safflower stems at 
Mandla, in the Central Provinces, but I have not been able to get the 
species identified as yet. 
In the Central Provinces there are two kinds of flies which attack Mr. 
safflower. In the case of one species the maggots bore into the stem 
and lull the plant ; in the case of the other the maggots are found 
attacking the seeds on the plants. 
There seem to be three dipterous pests of this crop but we seem to Mr. 
know remarkably little about any of them. None has been noticed 
at Pusa so far. 
Fletcher. 
Shroff. 
Fletcher. 
Ratiram. 
Fletcher. 
