44 I'KOCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Chcetodacus cucurhitw, Coq. (1899). 



Dacus cucurbitw, Coq. 



Howlett, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 633, f. 418 (1909). 

 Bactrocera lucurbitce, Bezzi, Mem. Ind. Mus. Ill, p. 96, t. 8, 



f. 7 (1913). 

 Dacus cucurbitw, Fletcher, S. Ind. Ins. p. 354, t. 16. 

 Chcetodacus cucuibitce, Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Res. VII, 109-110, 



(Oct. 1916). 

 ChcBtodacus cucurbitcc, Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 11, 304, 



305, 307 (1917). 



Occurs throughout India, Burma and Ceylon. 



The Pusa collection contains specimens from the following localities 

 and food-plants : — 



Peradeniya, pumpkins ; Coimbatore, cucumber, pumpkin, melons ; 

 Attur, watei--melon ; Pusa, Litffa cegyptia:a, pumpkins, cucum- 

 ber, Trichosantkes dioica fruits, Cephalandra indica stem (making 

 galls), in wild small fruits and cultivated large fruits of Cucumis 

 trigonus, Mcmiordica charantia fruits, Trichosantkes anguina 

 fruits, galls of Yitis trifolia : Peshawar, melon shoots ; Maymyo, 

 Lujfa cegyptiaca ; Tatkon, Trichosanthes cucumerina. 



We discussed this species (as well as those other fruitflies also) at the 

 last Meeting and I need only call your attention now to Mr. Fullaway's 

 paper on the control of this fruitfly in Hawaii by means of a parasite. 

 [See page 625.] 



We have bred parasites from it [at Coimbatore]. 



Chcetodacui caudatus, Fb. (1805). 



Bactro era^caudata, Bezzi, Mem. Ind. Mus. Ill, 97, t. 8, f. 8 



(1913). 

 Chcetodacus caudatus, Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Res., VII, 110 (Oct. 



1916). 

 Chcetodacus caitdatus, Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 213 (1917). 

 In his paper, Bezzi gives the following localities and food-plants ; — 

 Dehra Dun ; Shevaroys ; Coimbatore, on snake gourd ; Baba- 

 budins ; Lashio ; Tatkon, larva on fruits of Trichosanthes pal- 

 inata ; Myitkyina, on pomelo ; Taung-gyL 

 The Pusa collection contains specimens reared at Peradeniya from 

 pumpkins, and adults taken at Jeolikote, on mulberry fruit, and at 

 Taung-gyi. 



