PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 279 
The leaves of well grown cabbage plants are eaten by :— 
Athalia proxima. 
Pieris brassice. 
- canidia. 
Agrotis ypsilon. 
Prodenia litura. 
Plusia orichalcea. 
Crocidolomia binotalis. 
Hellula undalis. 
Plutella maculipennis. 
Monolepta signata. 
Phyllotreta chotanica. 
Flea beetles. 
Tanymecus circumdatus. 
Athalia provima was considered under seedlings. It also occurs on 
the leaves of grown plants but does little damage to these as a rule. 
Pieris brassice is a bad pest in most parts of Northern India. It is 
found all along the Himalayan Range from Chitral to Bhutan and the 
Hills of Assam, penetrating into the Plains in the winter months in an 
area about one hundred miles wide and parallel with the hills, straggling 
as far south as Cuttack. At Pusa, as I told you the other day, adults 
appear regularly every year about Ist February and two or three 
broods occur in February and March, the butterflies all disappearing 
about the end of April. At Peshawar the butterflies appear in October 
and are on the wing and breed until about the end of May. We have 
examples from Bhagalpur, Pusa, Lyallpur, Akalgarh (Punjab), Peshawar, 
Abbottabad and Shillong. It is a serious pest of cabbage. The life- 
history is described in the Agricultural Journal of India for January 
1912 and again in Entomological Memoirs, Vol. V, pp. 20-26. Control is 
comparatively easy if due precautions are taken, as the egg-masses and 
batches of young gregarious larve are easily seen and collected ; if the 
larvee are left until they scatter, control becomes more difficult and 
the damage done is also greater. 
Pieris canidia occurs commonly in the Hill Districts throughout 
India and Burma. The caterpillar is said to damage cabbages at 
Maymyo, in Upper Burma, but the record requires confirmation. 
Agrotis ypsilon occurs fairly commonly on cabbages and does consi- 
derable damage when it does occur by boring into the head and often 
spoiling the whole plant for food. It also attacks seedlings as a 
regular cut-worm, when it can be grubbed out of the adjacent soil. When 
inside the grown head, however, it rests there and does not go into the 
