PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 291 
Sweet Potato (Ipomea batatas). 
The leaves of Sweet Potato are attacked by a good many insects Mr. Fletcher. 
but few of these are of any real importance. We find :— 
Euchromia polymena. 
Diacrisia obliqua. 
Estigmene lactinea. 
Prodenia litura. 
Catephia inquieta. 
Herse convolvult. 
Aspidomorpha miliaris. 
> indica. 
Pilemostoma trilineata. 
Metriona varians. 
»  circumdata. 
Coptocycla sp. 
Cassid. 
Oncocephala tuberculata. 
Blosyrus asellus. . 
Myllocerus sabulosus. 
Euchromia polymena has been found in Travancore as an occasional 
minor pest, as related in Entomological Note 61 in Bulletin 59. 
Diacrisia obliqua occasionally occurs in districts where it is common, 
There is nothing special to say about it. 
Estigmene lactinea occasionally occurs but is scarcely a pest. 
Prodenia litura occasionally occurs on sweet potato but is of little 
importance as a pest. 
Catephia inquieta has been found in small numbers on the leaves 
and is sporadically a minor pest in North Bihar. _ It has also been reared 
at Pusa on young sugarcane. We have also moths from Myingyan, in 
Upper Burma, from Coimbatore and Siruguppa (Bellary District). 
Herse convolvuli is common and may be looked on as a minor pest, 
although it does not do much damage asarule. The caterpillars may be 
hand-picked. 
Aspidomorpha miliaris [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 316-317, fig, 
168] has a wide distribution in South-Easten Asia, having been recorded , 
from the Malay Peninsula, Philippines, Sunda Islands, New Guinea 
India, Yunnan and Tonkin. It is common throughout India and does a 
little damage at times by the larve feeding on the leaves, but it is scarcely 
a pest. It also breeds on wild species of Ipomea. Cassidocida aspido- 
morphe, Crawf., was reared from larve of A. miliaris at Bangalore. 
x 2 
