Mr. Jhaveri. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. P. C. Sen. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Khare. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ratiram. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
290 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Euzophera perticella bores in the stems at times but only seems to 
have been noticed doing this in Bombay. 
Euzophera perticelia occurs in tomato stems in Surat. 
Collection and destruction of attacked stems is the only thing to do. 
Sucking insects on tomato include Mites and Mealy-bugs, the latter 
being generally Pseudococcus (Dactylopius) virgatus and being sometimes 
rather bad. 
Mealy-bugs occur on tomato at Coimbatore. 
CHILLIES (Capsicum spp.). 
Chilli seedlings are sometimes attacked by Brachytrypes portentosus 
(achatinus) which we have already considered several times. 
Brachytrypes was found cutting the young plants. It was bad at 
Dacca. 
The leaves are eaten by Monolepta signata and Laphygma exigua but 
these are not important pests of this plant. 
Boring in the stem one finds EHuzophera perticalla [see under brinjal] 
but it is not serious as a pest of chillies. 
The fruits of chillies are occasionally attacked by fruit-flies and 
Chetodacus ferrugineus dorsalis was bred from Capsicum frutescens at 
Mandalay and from American chilhes at Maymyo. This fly, however, 
has not been noticed as a pest. 
At Nagpur chilli fruits are malformed by a Chalcidid which causes 
a gall. The damage done is considerable. 
We do not know about that and would like to see it if it occurs again. 
Sucking insects on chilli plants include :-— 
Lygeus pandurus. 
Jassids. 
Aphids. 
Thrips. 
Lygeus pandurus [“ South Indian Insects,” p. 481, fig. 365] occurs 
commonly on the plants but is not known to be a pest. 
Jassids sometimes occur in numbers and do some damage, but we 
do not know the species concerned. They might be collected in bag 
or hand-nets. 
Jassids are found on chillies in Berar. 
Aphids and Thrips also occur but are very minor pests as a rule. 
The roots are attacked by termites which sometimes do a good deal 
of damage. Only general control methods seem to be applicable. 
