Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
232 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Pulvinaria psidii is often a bad pest of guava and is almost always 
present when any number of guava trees are grown. When it is bad 
it is best controlled by spraying with Fish-oil-Resin Soap but two or 
three applications will be required at intervals of ten or twelve days. 
Coccus viridis also occurs on guava but does not seem to be a bad 
pest mm India. However, guava is a regular foodplant and there is 
considerable danger of introducing this Scale into new districts with 
imported guava plants. 
Sarssetia (Lecanium) hemispherica is also common on guava but not 
a bad pest as a rule. 
Saissetia hemispherica is bad on guava in Kollegal. 
Chrysomphalus rossi and Aspidiotus latanie both occur on guava 
but are not serious pests. 
POMEGRANATE (Punica granatum). 2 
The leaves of pomegranate are eaten by a few insects but these are 
not serious pests, at least as a rule. 
Achea janata. 
Parasa lepida. 
Euproctis flava. 
F fraterna. 
Myllocerus 11-pustulatus. 
Achea janata and Parasa lepida both occur on pomegranate at 
times and it is worth while remembering that this plant can be an alter- 
uative foodplant for these caterpillars. 
ELuproctis flava has been recorded from the Punjab and E. fraterna 
from Madras, and both these species are sporadically abundant. 
Myllocerus 11-pustulatus occurs on the leaves of pomegranate as on 
nearly all other plants, but is scarcely a pest. 
The fruits of pomegranate are usually the parts most liable to attack 
and may be very badly damaged at times. The following pests are 
known :— 
Virachola isocrates. 
Deudoriz epijarbas. 
Mealy-bug. 
Virachola isocrates has been described in “ South Indian Insects,” 
p. 416, fig. 289, and a coloured plate showing the life-history has since 
been issued. The caterpillar bores in the fruit and destroys it. It 
also feeds in guava, loquat, tamarind, wood-apple (Feronia) and orange 
but its main foodplant is pomegranate and it is decidedly the worst 
pest of this fruit in the Plains or at least, in most parts of the Plains, 
