Mr. S. R. Gupta. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
286 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Dorylus orientalis |“ South Indian. Insects,” p. 274, fig. 111] occurs 
in most parts of India and occasionally attacks the underground portions 
of potato plants. Watering with a deterrent, such as Crude Oil Emul- 
sion, will drive them away temporarily. 
Dorylus is very bad on potato in Assam. The ants bore the tubers 
and cut the roots. 
Dorylus labiatus has been reported from Coorg as attacking potato 
in the same way as D. orientalis. 
The stems of potato are bored by :— 
Leucinodes orbonalis. 
Phthorimea operculella. 
Leucinodes orbonalis was found boring in top-shoots of potato at 
Poona, but this habit is very unusual. [See Entomological Note 71, 
in Bulletin 59.] 
Phthorimea operculella was found to bore into shoots in confinement 
but this habit has not been noticed in the field in India. 
o- 
BrinJau (Solanum melongena). 
Brinjal seedlings are attacked by :— 
Solenopsis geminata. 
Flea-beetles. 
Halticus minutus. 
Solenopsis geminata [“* South Indian Insects,” pp. 274-275, fig. 112] 
was reported as damaging brinjal seedlings in Calcutta. In such cases 
the ants could probably be kept away by sprinkling the plants with 
kerosinized ashes. 
Flea-beetles and Halticus minutus attack seedlings in the seed-beds 
and may kill the young plants, whose leaves become spotted with yellow. 
Control by hand-nets. 
Brinjal leaves are eaten by :— 
Epilachna 12-stigma. 
5 28-punctata. 
Myllocerus subfasciatus. 
_ blandus. 
Laphyqma exigua. 
Eublemma oliwvacea. 
Plotheva nephelotis. 
Acherontia styx. 
Nephopteryx minutella. 
Phycita clientella. 
Pachyzancla bipunctalis. 
Pterophorus lenigianus. 
