PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING Rok 
Anarsia melanoplecta [Entomological Note 78, Bulletin 59] burrows 
in young mango shoots, but is not common as a rule and scarcely a 
pest. There is also a larva which burrows under the bark of mango 
twigs so that the upper surface of the bark becomes detached and loose 
and peels off; it is not quite certain whether this is due to Anarsia 
melanoplecta or not. 
Damage caused by loose bark in that way is common. Mr. Ghosh. 
Aleides frenatus |Kntomological Note 28, fig. 4] was reported from Mp, Fletcher. 
Dacca as doing considerable damage by boring into shoots of grafted 
mango trees. 
Aleides frenatus at Dacca is a bad pest of regular occurrence in the yp. p, ¢. gen, 
young shoots of small and large mango trees. Grafted trees suffer 
more from the attack of this weevil. As regards the lifehistory, almost 
all the stages are found in the shoots, which die back. The affected 
shoots are readily distinguishable and picked off, and the beetles, which 
are commonly found in pairs ovipositing in the shoots, can also be 
collected. The pest is bad from March to October. 
Apsylla cistellata [{‘ Indian Insect Life,’ p. 742, figs. 514, 515] Mr. Fletcher. 
is found throughout Northern India. Its early stages are passed 
inside a young shoot which becomes distorted and transformed into a 
curiously-shaped gall. It is not common as a rule, but occasionally 
becomes a pest in gardens. 
The gall assumes the shape of a cone inside which the nymphs are Mr. Ghosh. 
found. The nymphs are covered with a sort of a white powder and the 
interior of the gall is filled with pearly drops of liquid. 
The flowers of mango are attacked by numerous insects of which Mr. Fletcher. 
the most important are the species of Idiocerus. On the flowers we 
get :— 
Euproctis scintillans. 
Dichocrocis punctiferalis. 
Eublemma silicula. 
Antestia cruciata. 
Idiocerus atkinsoni. 
2 niveosparsus. 
- clypealis. 
ELuproctis scintillans [“ South Indian Insects,” p. 399, fig. 268] is 
sometimes found on mango flowers and has been reported from Saida- 
pet, in Madras, but it is unimportant and not a regular pest. 
Dichocrocis punctiferalis [l.c., p. 433, tab. 34] has been bred in some 
numbers from mango inflorescence and may be considered a minor 
