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Why was not hand-picking carried on? Was it not found success- Mr. 
‘ful 2 
Hand-picking was done only in the beginning but later on the crop Mr. 
‘erew very luxuriantly, because it had been manured with night-soil, 
and the coolies could not get inside the plot. 
Has anyone noticed that Cosmophila attacks any particular varieties Mr. 
of cotton ? 
The variety grown in Gujarat is less attacked than the neglectwm Mr 
variety grown in Kast Khandesh. 
Have you anything to say about the hand-picking of these caterpillars ? Mr. 
The caterpillars can be easily dislodged by shaking the plants and Mr. 
then the caterpillars which have dropped to the ground can be crushed. 
That is what I wanted to bring out. Mr. 
Diacrisia obliqua sometimes attacks cotton in districts where it occurs 
and may do a good deal of damage when it is allowed to get out of hand. 
Prompt picking of egemasses and young larve, combined with clean 
cultivation, should be quite effective checks. 
Estigmene lactinea [‘‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 368, fig. 230] is 
oceasionally found on cotton but does not seem to be a regular pest. 
Pericallia ricini [ South Indian Insects,” pp. 370-371, fig. 232] has 
been reared on cotton in Madras but is not a pest of cotton. 
Acontia graellsi [‘‘ South Indian Insects ”’ pp. 385-386, fig. 249] is a Mr. 
very minor pest of cotton and is more commonly found on bhindi. We 
have records of its occurrence at Coimbatore on Cambodia cotton and 
at Shripur (Bengal) on cotton-flower. 
Acontia malve may occasionally be found on cotton but we seem 
to have no records from cotton, so it is evidently of little importance 
as a pest. 
Acontia intersepta also is not definitely known to occur on cotton 
but, -as it feeds on bhindi and Sida, it may be found on cotton also at 
times. 
Tarache notabilis occurs throughout the Plains of India as a very 
minor pest of cotton. 
Tarache nitidula [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 381-382, fig. 243] 
oceurs commonly throughout the Plains of India and is an occasional 
minor pest of cotton. 
Tarache opalinoides |** South Indian Insects,” p. 382, fig. 244] occurs 
in Central and Southern India as a very minor pest of cotton. 
All these species of Acontia and Tarache are potential rather than 
actual pests of cotton but may possibly occur sporadically as pests in the 
same way as Cosmophila erosa. 
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Ratiram. 
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