Mr. Fletcher. 
284 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Pieris brassice has occurred on lettuce at Pusa rather late in the 
season, but is not a regular pest. 
Oxyptilus lactuce was reared from larve sent to us from Dehra Dun 
as found on lettuce. It is an undescribed species, in general appearance 
very like Sphenarches caffer. Whether it does any damage we do not 
know. It was only sent in once. 
Cress (Lepidium sativum). 
The leaves of cress are eaten by :— 
Athalia proxima. 
Crocidolomia binotalis. 
Both of these were considered under mustard and there is no more 
to add regarding their occurrence on cress. . 
OTHER VEGETABLES AND CONDIMENTS 
PoTato (Solanum tuberosum). 
Potato seedlings are attacked by :— 
Gonocephalum (Opatrum) spp. 
Agrotis ypsilon. 
5 “nigrum. 
Eucxoa segetum. 
Gonocephalum (Opatrum) of various species, generally referred to 
G. depressum, are said to eat sometimes into the stems of older plants 
and also attack seedlings, but the amount of damage done and its real 
cause seem to require further investigation. The adult beetles seem to 
feed only on decaying vegetable matter. 
Agrotis ypsilon occurs throughout Northern India and mostly in a 
belt of about one hundred miles wide and parallel with the Himalayas, 
straggling as far as Nagpur and Jessore. Apparently not known in 
Western or Southern India, but probably occurs, as it is found in Ceylon. 
It has been reared on potato at Jubbalpur, in the Central Provinces, 
and probably occurs in most potato-growing districts in Northern India, 
the larva cutting the young plants and eating into the stems of larger 
plants. Control on a large scale by Andres—Maire traps and in garden 
plots by grubbing up the caterpillars. 
Agrotis c-nigrum occurs at Jubbalpur, usually every year, as a pest 
of potato. Control by hand-collection of the caterpillars. 
Euxoa segetum |‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 375, fig. 237] occurs 
throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, more commonly in the Hill Dis- 
tricts, and is often a serious pest of potato in the Hills. In the Shevaroy 
Hills there was a very bad attack on potatoin 1912. Control by grubbing 
