PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 235 
Journal of India, Vol. I, p. 292. The life-history does not seem to be 
known, but it is found commonly on wild species of Vits. 
In the North-West Frontier Province Scelodonta strigicollis destroys Mr. Robertson- 
the tender shoots of grape-vines. As regards control, (1) collecting the Brown. 
beetles by tapping the creepers, (2) pruning long (?.e., leaving three or 
four buds remaining instead of one or two), and (3) removing all the 
loose bark, have been found useful measures. 
The method, described in the Agriculiural Journa’, of control by Mr, Thaveri. 
plantain brooms, is generally practised in Nasik. 
Species of Myllocerus are found on vine leaves, sometimes in numbers, Mr. Fletcher. 
but are scarcely pests. 
Hippotion celerio is a widely-distributed species which is recorded 
as a pest of the grape-vine in Australia. In India it is a minor pest 
in most districts. 
Theretra alecto has been reared at Pusa on grape-vine, a wild Vitis, 
and on Boerhaavia but is not known to be a pest. 
Sylepta lunalis occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon and 
has been reared in Bihar from larve rolling grape-vine leaves into a 
funnel and dropping to the ground on the least d'sturbance. It is a 
minor pest of the vine. 
Phyllocnistis toparcha is so far only known from Madras where it 
mines the leaves of the vine much in the same way as P. citrella mines 
in Citrus. This is a novelty, only found last year and described quite 
recently. 
it is found at Coimbatore and is common on vine there. Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Teratodes monticollis [“‘ Indian Insect Life,” p. 88, figs. 28, 29] was Mr. Fletcher. 
sent m to us from Bengal as attacking vine leaves, but only one speci- 
men was sent and that was probably a mere casual visitor or feeder. 
It is not known as a pest of grape-vine. 
The stems and branches of vine are attacked at times by Sthenias 
grisator which rings them in much the same way as_ it attacks Hrythrina. 
It has been reported from Palitana as doing this. The adult beetles 
may be collected on the plants and the ringed portion destroyed by 
fire. 
The fruits are rather immune from attack but Noctuid moths have 
been reported to suck them at Lyallpur. 
The moths found were identified at Pusa as Achaea jana’a, Ophideres Mr. M. M. Lal. 
fullonica and Anut coronata. They did serious damage last year at 
Lyallpur by puncturing the fruits, which afterwards rotted as a result. 
Ophideres fullonica is a well-known pest of fruits and we discussed Mr. Fletcher. 
it under Citrus. It is possible that the other two species were only 
