Mr. Khare. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
288 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Nephopteryx minutella was reared at Pusa in small numbers in August. 
and September 1912 from caterpillars on brinjal leaves, but did not occur 
as a pest. It is recorded from South India, Ceylon and Burma. 
Phycita clientella is recorded from Calcutta, Bombay and Ceylon. It 
has been reared at Pusa from larve rolling brinjal leaves, but has not 
occurred as a pest. 
Pachyzancla bipunctalis (agrotalis) occurs throughout India (except 
North-West) and Ceylon. It has been bred at Pusa on Alternanthera 
sesselis and on croton, and at Coimbatore on brinjal and in brinjal shoots. 
It does not seem to have been noted as attacking any crop-plant except 
at Coimbatore. [‘‘ South Indian Insects,” pp. 440-441, fig. 317.] 
Pterophorus lenigianus |‘ South Indian Insects,” p. 445, fig. 322] 
occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. It has been reared on 
brinjal at Coimbatore and in the Godavari delta but is scarcely a pest. 
Phthorimea blapsigona has been reared at Coimbatore, Saidapet and 
Nagpur from larve boring and feeding in flower-buds of brinjal. Pro- 
bably widely distributed in the Plains of India as a minor pest of brinjal. 
It is also reported to bore into the fruits in Nagpur. 
It bores into the flower-buds and is a bad pest of brinjal in the hot 
season in the Central Provinces. 
Phthorimea blapsigona is bad in brinjal buds in Madras also. 
We have searched for it at Pusa but without success so far, so it is 
evidently not much of a pest in Bihar. 
Phthorimea ergasima, however, is another species which we have found 
at Pusa, where the caterpillars mine brinjal leaves in February and 
March. It is searcely a pest and is probably widely distributed in the 
Plains of India. 
Phthorimea operculella was found at Dharwar mining brinjal leaves,,. 
as related in Entomological Note 77, in Bulletin 59. 
Orthacris sp. [“ South Indian Insects,” p. 527, fig. 420] occurs in 
Southern India as a minor pest of brinjal leaves. 
Atractomorpha crenulata [l.c., p. 528, fig. 421] also occurs on brinjal 
as a minor pest. It may be hand-picked. 
The buds of brinjal are attacked by Phthorimaa blapsigona, as we 
have just seen, and also by Solenopsis geminata [l.c., pp. 274-275, fig. 112]. 
The fruits are bored by Leucinodes orbonalis [l.c., p. 436, tab. 30, figs. 
5-9], whose caterpillar bores in the fruits as a rule but is also found in the 
shoots. It is widely distributed throughout our limits and is a very bad 
pest. Collection and destruction of attacked shoots and fruits seems to- 
be the only remedy. Besides brinjal, L. orbonalis has been found in 
Solanum xanthocarpum, a wild plant, and in Solanum nigrum, which is 
