Mr. P. C. Sen. 
Mr. Shroff. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
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soil in the daytime and the only thing to do is to extract it, if possible, 
before much damage has been done. 
Prodenia litura [‘‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 377, tab. 19] attacks 
cabbages as it does practically all low-growing plants, but is not much 
of a pest, eating only the outer leaves. 
Plusia orichalcea is described and figured in ‘‘ South Indian Insects,” 
pp. 393-394, fig. 260, and we have since issued a coloured plate showing 
the life-history. It is common throughout India and the caterpillar is 
often found on cabbage, but it is a very minor pest of this crop. 
Crocidolomia binotalis |l. ¢., p. 437, fig. 313] occurs commonly on 
cabbage but is chiefly a pest of plants kept for seed. We discussed 
this under mustard and there is no more to add, but control on a garden 
crop such as cabbage is obviously easier than on mustard. 
Hellula undalis |. c., pp. 487-438, fig. 314] also occurs as a minor 
pest of cabbages, sometimes serious. This also was discussed under 
mustard and the same remark applies as to the last-named species. 
Plutella maculipennis |l. c., p. 464, fig. 340] occurs throughout the 
whole World wherever cabbages are grown by man and is a regular 
minor pest of this crop, eating holes in the leaves. The simplest remedy 
in this case is to squash the caterpillars and pupe on the leaves. The 
caterpillay also bores into the heads, eating through several layers of 
leaf, and in this case the leaves may be opened up and the caterpillar 
squashed. 
Monolepta signata {l.c., p. 310, fig. 159] occurs throughout India, 
usually as a minor pest on cabbage. The beetles may be caught in hand- 
nets. 
Phyllotreta chotanica is a small blue-black Halticine beetle found at 
Pusa in small numbers on cabbage. It is scarcely a pest. It occurs 
at Mandalay. 5 
Other Flea-beetles, which may or may not be Phadon brassica, are 
also found commonly. 
Tanymecus circumdatus has been found on cabbage at Lahore, but 
we do not know it as a pest. 
Opatrum beetles were seen on two occasions eating the leaves of 
cabbage and cauliflower at Dacca, in Bengal. 
A yellow-striped Flea-beetle occurs on cabbage in the Katha District, 
Burma. It is Phyllotreta vittata. 
The stems of cabbages are sometimes attacked, especially in the Hills, 
by Euxoa segetum [‘‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 375, fig. 237], which is 
generally a very difficult insect to check. The best thing to do, in the 
case of cabbages, is to grub out the caterpillars from the soil around the 
plants. 
