Mr. Shroff. 
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ApeLE (Pyrus malus). 
Apple leaves are attacked by numerous leaf-eating pests :— 
Brahmina coriacea. 
Adoretus versutus. 
»  horticola. 
Emperorrhinus defoliator. 
Myllocerus 11-pustulatus. 
Dereodus pollinosus. 
Gracilariad. 
Brahmina coriacea, Adoretus versutus and A. horticola have beer 
reported from Jeolikote [see Entomological Notes 11, 20 and 22 in 
Bulletin 59]. A. versutus was also noted to damage apple seedlings at 
Jeolikote in May 1915. Probably various other Rutelid and Melolon- 
thid beetles occur on apple leaves in the Hills. 
Emperorrhinus defoliator was found eating apple leaves in Kulu in an 
orchard containing peach, apricot, pear and apple, but the apple trees 
were the last to be attacked. 
Myllocerus 11-pustulatus was found at Bangalore on apple leaves and. 
shoots. 
Dereodus pollinosus [Marshall, Fauna of India, Curculionidae, Vol. I, 
p. 121] was found on apple at Kulu, and also occurs on Zizyphus jujuba 
and Calotropis. An unidentified brown weevil occurred commonly on 
leaves and shoots of apple at Abbottabad in May 1916 and seemed to 
be doing some damage. 
In the North-West Frontier Province a Gracilariad caterpillar 
attacks apple leaves in May and has been noticed at Peshawar and Abbot- 
tabad, but the moth has not been bred out. The caterpillar is a miner 
in its early stages but later on ties up the leaves, fastening the edges 
together and living inside, gnawing the upper surface of the leaf. It 
pupates in a silken cocoon attached to the leaf. A good proportion 
of leaves may be affected. 
Apple twigs have been noted to be gnawed at Bangalore by Ca@los- 
terna spinator [“‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 325, fig. 180] but it is a minor 
pest as a rule, sporadically abundant. 
Boring in apple stems and branches we have Lophosternus hugelr 
[Stebbing, Indian Forest Coleoptera, p. 274, tab. 17] which has been found 
boring in the trunks and roots in Kumaon. Stebbing reports it as boring 
in Quercus incana in North-West India. 
At Taung-gyi, in the Southern Shan States, a yellow grub was found: 
boring in apple. It is probably Aristobia approximator. 
