Mr. A. Mujtaba. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
220 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Argyroploce aprobola is also widely distributed throughout the Plains 
and is a very minor pest of litchi, the larva rolling the leaves. It has 
also been reared at Coimbatore from larva boring rose-bud, at Poona, 
Pusa and Bassein Fort on mango, and at Pusa on rose flower and leaves 
of Cassia tora and Polyalthia longifolia. 
(Ecophylla smaragdina nests in litchi trees in the same way as it 
does in mangoes and is equally a nuisance to the fruit-pluckers. 
Litchi fruits are rather free of insect pests but are occasionally 
attacked by the caterpillar of Argyroploce wlepida [“ South Indian 
Insects,” pp. 449-450, fig. 327], which bores in the interior of the stone. 
It has a very wide range of food-plants, having been reared from Cassia 
fistula pods, Acacia arabica pods, agathi pods, wood apple (Feronia 
elephantum), bael (Afgle marmelos) fruit, ete. The damage done is smal 
and no control seems possible. 
I remember to have reared Fruitflies from litchi fruits at Pusa, but 
I cannot say what species it was. 
I have never seen Fruitflies myself in litchi fruits and they must 
be scarce in this fruit. 
Boring in the stem of litchi we find Arbela tetraonis, which is not 
an uncommon pest of litchi in Bihar. The caterpillars are fairly easily 
dealt with, as we saw under mango. 
The sucking insects found on litchi include :— 
Tessarotoma quadraria. 
Tachardia albizzie. 
Saissetia (Lecanium) nigra. 
Pulvinaria psidi. 
Tessaratoma quadraria was reported on litchi in numbers at Kalim- 
pong in 1914, but we do not know it otherwise as a pest. 
Tachardia albizzie is a lac-insect sometimes found encrusting litchi 
branches in masses. I do not know whether it occurs in India, where ~ 
I have never seen it myself, but I saw some very fine examples of this 
insect when I was at Peradeniya in April 1914, large branches of litchi 
being thickly encrusted with this Scale. 
Saissetia (Lecanium) nigra occurs on the leaves and occasionally 
on the fruit, but it is usually quite a minor pest on litchi. 
Pulvinaria psidii also occurs at times but is not much of a pest as 
a rule. 
Probably other Scales occur also and the fact that we do not know 
about them affords perhaps the best testimony that they are not of 
any great importance as pests. 
