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On the other hand, we do not seem to get Epilachna on bottle-gourd. 
The fruits of bottle-gourd support a fruitfly fauna distinct from 
that found in pumpkins. In bottle-gourd we get :— 
Cheetodacus zonatus. 
a diversus. 
Chetodacus zonatus was reared at Nagpur in August 1913 and C. 
diversus also at Nagpur in August 1913, in both cases on bottle-gourd. 
SNAKE-GouRD (T'richosanthes anguina). 
The insects found on snake-gourd are practically the same as those 
found on pumpkins, eg., Epilachna spp., Aulacophora spp., Plusia 
peponis, Margaronia indica, and Aphids. 
Trichosanthes cucumerina. 
T. cucumerina is a wild species of snake-gourd found throughout 
India, Burma and Ceylon. Its pests are much the same as those of 
the other cucurbits and include Epilachna spp., Aulacophora stevensi 
and Chetodacus cucurbite. In addition to these, at Tatkon, in Lower 
Burma, I found another fruitfly, recently named by Professor Bezzi 
as Mellesis eumenoides, and the curious bug Leptoglossus membranaceus, 
which is an occasional pest of cucurbits, as noted in Ceylon also by 
Mr. Green. 
Gourp (Luffa acutangula). 
The pests of gourd are similar to those of pumpkins and include 
Meloid beetles on the flowers, Epilachna spp. and Aulacophora spp. on 
the leaves, and Apomecyna boring in the stem. We also get Riptortus 
pedestris at times. 
That brings us to the end of our review of the Insect Pests of Crops Mr. Fletcher. 
in India and we have only a very small amount of time left for the consi- 
deration of 
INSECT PESTS OF STORED PRODUCTS, 
but, unless anyone has any thing particular to say on this subject, we 
can take up this item to-day and run over it in a very brief manner. It 
is the less necessary to enter into it in any great detail because the 
available information has already been summarized in Chapter XVIII of 
“South Indian Insects ” and that is practicably applicable to the whole 
of India. To the information given there I may add that Corcyra cepha- 
lonica should be added to the list of destructive species and is common 
in India and Burma in stored rice, and that Rhizopertha dominica has 
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