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MlCROPEZID^. 



Calobata sp, 

 Fletcher, S. Ind. Ins., p. 355, f. 213. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 294, 295, (1917). 

 This species occurs throughout the Plains of India, the larva boring 

 into the rhizomes of turmeric and ginger, but it is not definitely known 

 whether it is a real pest or merely attacks rotting rhizomes. It has 

 been noted at Coimbatore. Samalkota and Hopin (Upper Burma). 



Nerius sp. 



This is an undescribed species, which will be described by Mr. Brunetti 

 in his second volume on Diptera in the Fauna of India Series. We have 

 it from PoUibetta in South Coorg, from Lashio in the Northern Shan 

 States, and from Myitkyina (Upper Burma) where the adults were found 

 in numbers on stored potatoes and on rotten potatoes which had been 

 thrown away. Like the Calobata, it is doubtfully a pest and may only 

 breed in rotten vegetable matter ; on the other hand, it may attack 

 sound tubers or may assist decay by carrying spores of rot-diseases from 

 lotten to healthy tubers. 



I have bred it from brinjal also at Matale. Mr. Senior- White. 



It seems definitely attached to Solanaceae. Bj].. Fletcher. 



Chloropid^. 

 Oscinis thece. 

 Indian Insect Life, p. 626, f. 412. 

 This species has been reported as mining in tea-leaves, but is not 

 3, pest so far as we know. 



(Cruciferous leaf-miner.) 

 Indian Insect Life, p. 623. fig. 411. 

 This is another species of which we know nothing regarding its status 

 as a pest. 



Agromyzid^. 

 (Red-gram Agromyza.) 

 S. I. Ins., p. 357, f. 216. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 44. 

 Andrews, Q. J. Ind. Tea Assoc. 1918, 34. [Tur-pod Fly.] 

 This species has been bred from Cajanus indicus at Coimbatore and 

 in Bombay and the Central Provinces, and at Tocklai and Borbhetta 

 d( Assam) the larva was found feeding on seeds of Cajanus indicus in April. 



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