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A termite, Microtermes obesi (anand?), has also been found attacking 
the roots and portions of stems underground of cabbages at Pusa and the 
plants attacked were apparently quite healthy. Watering with a deter- 
rent, such as Crude Oil Emulsion, is indicated in such cases. 
A few sucking insects are found on cabbage, but the only-one we need 
notice is Bagrada picta, which we considered under mustard. On cabbage 
it usually occurs late in the season and is generally only a pest on 
old plants, especially those kept for seed. Catching the bugs in hand- 
nets and spraying with a contact insecticide form the most effective 
-control-measures. 
In Burma Bagrada picta attacks cabbage seedlings also and this bug 
is rather a serious pest. 
In India, as I said, it usually occurs only on old plants which are 
sometimes literally covered with these bugs. Bagrada picta is distinctly 
a sporadic insect in its appearance and in some years is very abundant 
in districts where it is usually scarcely noticed. It would be interesting 
to know the exact causes underlying such sporadic outbreaks. 
CAULIFLOWER (Brassica oleracea cauliflora). 
Cauliflower is botanically a mere cultivated variety of cabbage and 
‘its pests are practically the same, so we need only run over them briefly. 
Cauliflower seedlings are attacked by :— 
Dorylus orientalis. 
Termites. 
Brachytrypes portentosus (achatinus). 
Chiloloba acuta, larva. 
Psylliodes tenebrosus. 
Dorylus orientalis and Termites attack the seedlings below the ground 
and can only be kept away by deterrents. As regards Dorylus orientalis, 
this occurs every year at Pusa and of various soil insecticides we have 
tried against this, our experience has been that Crude Oil Emulsion is 
the best. The same remark applies to termites, the species concerned 
at Pusa being Muicrotermes obesi (anand?). 
Brachytrypes portentosus was considered under cabbage and there is 
nothing special to say about it as regards cauliflower. 
The grubs of Chiloloba acuta were reported from Pachmarhi as attack- 
ing cauliflower seedlings. 
Psylliodes tenebrosus was reported as doing great damage to seedlings 
at Jeolikote in November 1909 and as having devastated a garden at 
Bhim Tal at the end of February 1912. 
Mr. Shroff. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
