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PHTHORIMAA BLAPSIGONA, MEYR. (PLATE XVII, FIG. 1.) 
Phthorimea blapsigona, Meyr., Exot. Micr., I, 569 (May 1916) (1) ; Proc. Second 
Entl. Meeting, p. 288 (1917)(?), Frac. Thar) EAP. treeMis Tis ‘Nos. i920 
Described from specimens reed at Coimbatore in July and August from 
larvee feeding on buds of brinjal (Solanum melongena)(?). 
This species has been reared at Coimbatore, Saidapet and Nagpur from 
larvee boring and feeding in flower-buds of brinjal. It is also reported to bore 
into the fruits at Nagpur, and is stated to be a decided pest in Madras and the 
Central Provinces. We have not been able to find this species uu Pusa and Be 
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have no details of its early stages. r  heckcy TE 933 Dec. 1920 
z B oe, aa OPERCULELLA, Z. (PLATE XVIII.) 
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Gelechia { operculella, Zeller, Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien., XXIII, 262-263, t. 3, 
nS 7 (1873)(2). Jy _ Vexas ) 
Phthorimea operculella, Wism., P. Z. 8., 1907, 942 [synonymy](?); Meyr., 
T.L. 8. (2) XIV, 273 (1911) (3) ; Lefroy, Ind. Ins.Life, p. 535, t. 57 (1909)(4), 
Agr. Jl. Ind., V, 19-28, t. 1 (Jan. 1910) (5) ; Fletcher, 8. Ind. Ins., p. 455, eter eee we 
t. 44 (1914)(6) ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 286, 288 (1917)(7); Varun ® oe ot y- ig) 
This species, which has been carried to almost all parts of the World RS. Kase Tse. 
with potato tubers, was brought into Bombay from Italy probably about 7.) f.tt. “Cy 
twenty years ago, and has now spread into most of the potato-growing districts 7 753-770 (Nev. yr) 
of India, where it is a very important pest of the stored tubers. It has also . 
been found at Dharwar on one occasion mining brinjal leaves (Entomological 
Note 77). Our records include Mirpurkhas (Sind), Poona, Dharwar, Nilgiris 
to 6,500 feet, Coimbatore, Chindwara, Sitamarhi, Partabgarh, Bankipur, 
Bettiah, Pusa and Purneah, but there is no doubt that this species is. still 
spreading and will ultimately invade all the potato-growing districts in 
India. 
In America and South Africa this species is well-known as a destructive 
miner in tobacco leaves, but it has not been noted to attack tobacco in India, 
It has also been noted on tomato, Solanum torvum, S. verbascifolium, S. caro- 
linense, S. nigrum, Physalis peruviana, Physalodes physalodes, and Datura 
stramonium, but has not been recorded on these foodplants in India. 
The early stages have been described by Morgan and Crumb (U. S. A. 
Dept. Agric. Bull. 59; 1914) as follows :— 
“Egg. The egg is pale, translucent, yellowish-grey, and strongly irides- 
cent ; it is oval, 0°45 mm. long, 0°35 mm. broad at the middle, membranous, 
and without apparent sculpture. The side upon which it is deposited is shghtly 
flattened, 
