Mr. Ratiram. 
254 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Myllocerus 11-pustulatus occurs on ber as on most other plants ; 
M. sabulosus is common and a minor pest ; M. transmarinus has been. 
found at Pusa ; and M. discolor was noticed at Jamalpur, in Bengal. 
Tanymecus circumdatus and T. hispidus have occurred at Pusa, but 
the latter is probably only a casual visitor and neither is a pest. 
The fruits of ber are attacked by :— 
Carpomyia vesuviana. 
Meridarchis scyrodes. 
Carpomyia vesuviana is a small Fruitfly which derives its specific 
name from the fact that it was first discovered on the slopes of Mount 
Vesuvius, in Italy. It seems to occur commonly throughout India and is 
a minor pest of cultivated ber fruits. It is parasitized more extensively 
than any other Fruitflies we know in India and, as I told you the other 
day, we have been attempting to introduce the parasites into Italy. 
These parasites have been worked out by Professor Silvestri, who has 
named two species as Biosteres carpomyve and Bracon fletcher: from speci- 
mens sent from Pusa. 
Meridarchis scyrodes has also been reared from larvee in ber fruits at 
Pusa, Coimbatore and Nagpur, but it is probably scarcely a pest. 
Boring insects in der include :— 
Arbela tetraonis. 
Celosterna spinator. 
Arbela tetraonis sometimes bores in ber but is not common in this 
tree as a rule. 
Calosterna spinator was reported from Poona but is not generally a 
pest. 
The stems of ber trees are attacked by a red mite which forms pustules 
on the bark, but we do not know what the mite is or much about it. 
The only important sucking insect found on ber is the lac insect 
(Tachardia lacca) and, as that is usually cultivated, we can hardly de- 
scribe it as a pest. 
BERBERRY (Berberis sp.). 
Anomala rufiventris, Anomala sp., Brahmina cribricollis and Holo- 
trichia fisa have been found on berberry in Kangra, but we know no more 
about them. 
Warer-NuT (TLrapa bispinosa). 
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The only pest we know on water-nut is Galerucella singhara, which 
is fully described in Entomological Memoirs, Vol. II, pp. 146-149, tab. 
15, so that we need not say much more about it. 
At Raipur, in the Central Provinces, a caterpillar was found boring 
in the nuts but the moths could not be bred out. 
