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Chalenosoma metallicum is a small brilliant green Halticine beetle 
found as a pest on lilies in the gardens at Ootacamund. It may be 
collected by hand. 
At Nagpur we get a leaf-miner, perhaps a species of Ayromyza, 1n Mr, Khare. 
garden lilies. 
OLEANDER (Neriuwm odorum). ‘ 
The leaves of oleander are eaten by the caterpillars of :— Mr. Fletcher. 
Pericallia ricini. 
Deilephila nerit. 
Euplea core. 
Pericallia ricint [South Indian Insects,” pp. 370-371, fig. 232] 
is not commonly found on oleander, but occasionally occurs and may 
do damage when in numbers. Picking of the young larve will provide 
control. 
Deilephila nerw [l. ¢., pp. 403-404, figs. 273, 274], as its specific name 
implies, feeds on oleander and is a frequent minor pest in gardens. 
Owing to the large size of the larve, considerable defoliation may be 
produced. They may be hand-picked but are not easy to see. 
Euplea core occurs fairly commonly on oleander but is scarcely a 
pest. 
The stems of oleander have been reported as “ ringed ” by Sthenias 
grisator [ see under Erythrina| in Palitana, but this is not a common 
form of injury. 
The leaves and shoots are also sometimes very badly attacked by 
a small round Scale-insect, which chiefly affects potted plants, but it 
does not seem to have been identified. 
Parlatoria pergandii is bad on the leaves, stems and shoots of oleander Mr, Ramakrishra 
in Madras. Ayyar. 
Turst (Ocumum sanctum). 
Tulsi leaves are eaten by the larva of Lyncstis amphiz and the leaves py. Fletcher. 
are rolled by the larva of Syngamia abruptalis. The larva of Lyncestis 
amphiz is figured in “ Indian Insect Life,” p. 446, fig. 306, under the 
name of Huscotia sp. 
Monanthia globulifera [“ South Indian Insects,”’ pp. 485-486, fig. 371] 
is also a minor pest, sometimes causing the leaves to turn yellow, and 
Ceroplastodes cajyant [l. ¢., p. 512, fig. 400] has also been recorded on 
tulsi. 
DAHLIA. 
Argyroploce aprobola is said to have been reared at Nagpur from 
a larva found on Dahlia flowers, but the record requires confirmation. 
