Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. M. M. Lal. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
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out in clouds when the leaves were disturbed ; but a subsequent visit 
failed to reveal a single example. 
This Aleyrodid also occurs at times at Coimbatore and Bangalore. 
It occurs in the Punjab also, but is not very extensively found—only 
small colonies here and there. 
Chrysomphalus (Aspidio'us) rossi and Aspidiotus orientalis have 
been found on pomegranate at Bilaspur but are apparently not regular 
pests. Indeed, pomegranate seems to be rather free of real pests with 
the important exception of Virachola isocra’es and sporadic outbreaks 
of the white Aleyrodid. 
Woop-ApPL_E (Feronia elephantum). 
The leaves are occasionally stripped by larve of Parasa lepida and 
the fruits afford alternative food for larve of Argyroploce illepida and 
Virachola isocrates. 
GRAPE-VINE (Vitis vinifera). 
The leaves of the vine are attacked, sometimes badly, by various 
leaf-eating insects :— 
Brahmina coriacea. 
Adoretus lasiopyqus. 
ae versutus. 
- duvauceli. 
horticola. 
Scelodont ‘a strigicollis. 
Myllocerus sp. 
Hippotion celerio. 
Theretra alecto. 
Sylepta lunalis. 
Phyllocnistis toparcha. 
Teratodes monticollis. 
Brahmina coriacea, Adoretus lasiopygus, A. versutus and A. horticola 
all occur on vine-leaves and may do considerable damage in localities 
where these beetles are abundant. The damage is done by the adult 
beetles eating the leaves. [See Entomological Notes 11, 18, 20, 21 and 
22 in Bulletin 59.] 
Scelodonta strigicollis [“ South Indian Insects,” p. 309, fig. 158] is 
common. on vines throughout India and Burma and often does serious 
damage. The beetles may be collected in numbers off the leaves by 
means of hand-nets or the plants may be sprayed with a stomach- 
poison. There is also a local control-method described in Agriculiwral 
