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for in the North-West Frontier Province I do not know of its occur- 
rence at all. Control is difficult as the caterpillar feeds inside the fruit. 
Destruction of attacked fruit is an obvious measure to take, but this 
means the destruction of practically the whole crop in many cases. 
The catching of the female butterflies in hand-nets is not at all easy, 
as the flight is swift. The covering of the flower branches with bags 
might be tried in the case of especially valuable varieties ; the eggs are 
often laid on the young flowers, so that the mere bagging of fruits would 
be too late to be effective. Diligent attention will enable the eggs to 
be found and destroyed but even with this method many escape detec- 
tion and it is not a method likely to be adopted by the average culti- 
vator. 
Virachola isocrates is very bad at Pusa, sometimes 75 per cent. of Mr. Ghosh. 
pomegranate fruits bemg affected. 
In the Punjab Virachola is found but little damage is done to pome- Mr. M. M. Lal. 
eranate fruits. 
As regards control, in 1909 we tried netting the small fruits at Mr. Jhaveri. 
Caneshkhind Botanical Garden, Poona. The bagged fruits were saved. 
Tying the fruits in muslin bags is not so successful, as the eggs are Mr. Ghosh. 
laid on flowers also and even on adjacent leaves. If this trouble can 
be undertaken, looking over the flowers and fruits and rubbing off the 
eggs, once in every three days, is quite effective. 
The caterpillar is found in the fruit just below the rind and keeps Mr. Fletcher. 
a hole in the rind for disposal of frass ; it plugs this hole with its tail 
end and so can easily be pricked with a pin or thorn. This will kill 
the caterpillar but will not save the fruit. 
Deudorix epijarbas is recorded by Hannyngton [Bombay Journal 
XX, 369-370] as destructive to pomegranate fruits in Kumaun in June 
and July, so that “in some years scarcely a pomegranate escapes their 
attacks.” It is curious that D. epijarbas has never been sent in to us 
as a pest. 
A Mealy-bug is found at Coimbatore under the distal projection on 
the fruits and on fruit stalks. It seems to occur in most districts but 
is scarcely a pest, doing little harm as a rule. 
The sucking insects on pomegranate include :— 
Aleyrodes sp. 
Chrysomphalus (Aspidioius) rose. 
Aspidiotus orientalis. 
A small white Aleyrodid, very like Dialewrodes citri but apparently 
distinct, sometimes occurs abundantly on pomegranate but its occur- 
rence is sporadic. When I was at Dharwar in February 1912 some 
pomegranate trees there were covered with this Aleyrodid, which flew 
