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Phthorimea blapsigona. 
_ ergasima. 
i operculella. 
Orthacris sp. 
Atractomorpha crenulata. 
Epilachna dodecastigma {“‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 292, tab. 6 ] and 
E. 28-punctata are always minor, often major pests, of brinjal, the larvee 
and beetles both eating the leaves. The beetles may be collected. by 
hand in all stages and spraying with a stomach-poison done when neces- 
sary. 
Myllocerus subfasciatus [Marshall, Fauna of India, Curculionde, 
Vol. I, pp. 345-346] was found on brinjal at Saidapet, but is not a pest so 
far as we know. It was also found on potato at Ootacamund. 
Myllocerus blandus [l.c., pp. 333-334, fig. 101] occurred on brinjal 
at Lyallpur, and is recorded from Madras, Bengal, Bihar and Burma. 
It is not a pest so far as is known. 
Laphygma exigua is not common on brinjal and cannot be called a pest 
of this plant. : 
Eublemma olivacea is described and figured in “ South Indian Insects,” 
pp. 380-381, fig. 241, and the life-history is shown in detail in a new 
coloured plate. The caterpillar feeds inside a folded leaf which is usually 
rolled from the tip upwards and the caterpillar feeds on the leaf-substance 
of the roll in which it is contained. Pupation takes place inside the rolled 
leaf, which is discoloured and thus conspicuous. This insect is a minor 
pest as a rule, but occasionally very destructive. The affected, rolled 
leaves should be hand-picked and burnt, and, in Northern India, all dry 
and old leaves should be burnt in the winter months. The caterpillar 
does not bore into shoots-as stated in Indian Insect Pests, p. 166. 
Plotheia nephelotis is an unpublished manuscript name of a Sarro- 
thripine Noctuid which is a minor pest of brinjal, on which it has been 
reared at Calicut, Coimbatore, Tiruvallur, and Melrosepuram (Madras), 
Nagpur and Pusa, and at Hagari (Bellary District) on Solanum xantho- 
carpum, a wild solanaceous plant. This is evidently the same insect as 
that described in ‘‘South Indian Insects,” p. 383, fig. 246, as the “ Brinjal 
Sarrothripine.” The caterpillar attributed to this species in “ Indian 
Insect Life,” p. 449, is probably the larva of Hublemma olivacea ; the 
caterpillar of the present insect is hairy and yellow and lives exposed on 
the leaves. 
Acherontia styx [‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 402, tab. 24] is common 
throughout the Plains of India and Burma as a minor pest of brinjal. 
The large caterpillars may be hand-picked. 
