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The leaves are attacked by various leaf-eating insects, mostly 
beetles :— 
Brahmina corvacea. 
Anomala lineatipennis. 
Adoretus versutus. 
»  horticola. 
Euproctis flava. 
The four beetles were all found at Jeolikote, devouring plum leaves [see 
Entomological Notes 11, 20 and 22 in Bulletin 59] and Huproctis flava 
is recorded from Lyallpur. 
The fruits seem rather free from pests, but a larva of Virachola iso- 
crates was once found feeding in a plum-fruit at Pusa. 
Sucking insects on plum include Monophlebus stebbingi octocaudata, 
which is common throughout Northern India and which we have already 
considered several times, and a Lecanium sp. reported from Kashmuir. 
When I was at Abbottabad in May 1916 I saw a large plum-tree very 
badly attacked by a brown scale-insect, which was clustered in masses 
over the twigs and branches; but it has not been identified as yet. 
Apricot (Armeniaca vulgaris). 
The leaves of apricot have been found to be attacked in Kulu by 
Emperorrhinus defoliator [see under Peach] and the shoots were attacked 
at Jeolikote by Anomala polita. 
The fruits are attacked by an unnamed Hurytomine Chalcidid in 
the Hazara District of the North-West Frontier Province. This is quite 
an interesting case because it is of course unusual to find phytophagous 
Chalcidids at all. The eggs are laid in the young fruits which wither and 
drop off the tree when about half-grown, so that attacked fruits do not 
come to maturity at all. The grub feeds inside the stone, eating out 
the seed, and remains inside the stone on the ground throughout the 
winter, emerging next spring ; but in some cases, under Insectary con- 
ditions at Pusa, the grub may remain in a resting condition, two or per- 
haps more years. The damage done may be considerable but it is very 
local, only known at present in the Hazara District. Control should be 
attained simply by collection and destruction by fire of all stones of fallen 
fruit. 
The attack is confined to a few gardens in Hazara situated at an Mr. Robertson- 
altitude of 1,500-2,000 feet. This pest is not found in the common Hil] Brown. 
varieties of apricot but all the grafted varieties are affected. The 
attacked fruits drop from the branches when they are three-quarters 
orown. 
