PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING ont 
Adoretus versutus, A. duvauceli and A. horticola were all found on fig 
at Jeolikote [see Entomological Notes 20, 21 and 22 in Bulletin 59]. 
Ocinara varians is common on fig in the Plains and is often a serious 
pest, eating off the young growth as fast as it is put forth. It is described 
and figured in ‘‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 407, fig. 278. In the case of 
young trees, the larvee may be hand-picked, but are difficult to see. It 
feeds, of course, on wild species of Ficus also, as all these fig-pests do. 
Perina nuda was found on fig in the Botanical Garden at Coimbatore. Mr. Ramachandra 
Rao. 
Phycodes radiata |‘ South Indian Insects,” pp. 463-464, fig. 339] Mr. Fletcher. 
and P. minor are minor pests, especially of young trees, the caterpillars 
rolling and spinning up the leaves. 
Boring insects in fig include :— 
Batocera rubus. 
Rhytidodera sp. 
Olenecamptus bilobus. 
Batocera rubus is sometimes a serious pest in young trees, the erub 
boring in the stem and killing the tree. In the case of young trees, 
the damage is usually done when noticed but in some cases it is possible 
to inject a mixture of creosote and chloroform, or carbon bisulphide, to 
kill the grubs ; but generally it is better to cut it out in the case of small 
trees. These should be examined daily when the beetles are about and 
the beetles collected off them by hand. 
Batocera rubus is very bad at Peshawar on fig-trees. Mr. Robertson- 
Brown. 
An unidentified Longicorn beetle, probably a species of Rhytidodera, Mr. Fletcher. 
has been reported on cultivated fig-trees at Mandalay. 
Olenecamptus bilobus has also been reported on fig from Surat, Coim- 
batore and the Krishna Districts. It is common on wild figs but is not 
a bad pest of cultivated figs. . 
Fig fruits are attacked in the Peshawar Valley by the larva of Stath- 
mopoda sycastis. I got a single specimen in 1916 and reared it out, and 
it proves to be a new species. It does not do very much actual damage 
but is well known to the local people who are chary of eating the fruits 
because they contain this caterpillar. 
At Coimbatore a Mealy-bug occurs on the fruit-stalks. Mr. T. V. Rama- 
krishna Ayyar. 
The sucking insects found on fig include Ceroplastes floridensis and Mr. Fletcher. 
Mites found on the leaves. It is possible that the peculiar scorched 
appearance of fig-leaves, as seen in the North-West Frontier Province, 
may be due to attacks of mites ; but this is a point which requires to 
be worked out. 
