PROCEEDINGS Of THH THIRD lixro.vll 



JEII.-' 



Mr. Andrews. 



Iftc. Fjmakrishna 



Ayyar. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



Dr. Gough. 



Mr. Senior- White. 

 Mc. Fletcher. 

 Mc. G. R. Dutt. 

 Mr. Kunhi Kannan. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



South Bihar .... Rahi crops on chars. 



Bankipur ..... Cauliflower. 



Muzaffarpur . . ... Tobacco, cabbage. cauUflowor. 



Pusa Cabbage, potato leaves, castor loave.^, 



sunflower, rice leaves, jute, radish leaves, 

 sweet potato, urid {Pliaseohis radialus), 

 lucerne, Ja»minvm, groundnut, sugar- 

 cane, Coleiw. tobacco, cotton (very 

 rarely), ttir {Cajamis indicvs), Panicvm 

 sp.. rose, celery. 



Ghazipur (United -Provinces) . Opium-poppy leaves. 



Kumaon ..... Apple. 



The moth is attracted to Andres-Maire traps. 



It did extensive damage to tea in 1918 in the Eastern Duais. 



In Madras we find it on onions also. 



We find it very rarely on cotton in India, but I understand that it is 

 a regular cotton pest in Egypt. 



In Egypt it occurs mainly on cotton and bers'im, but from Asiatic 

 records we find that it is rarely found on cotton in Asia. In Egypt it 

 occurs on hershn for the first two broods and, if we can arrange that 

 the bersim is not watered, then the .subsequent attack on cotton is less- 

 ened. We find it also boring into potato tubers underground ; it is also 

 found on tomato fruits and it is very bad on lucerne. It is not found 

 on castor in Egypt. As regards attraction to the Andres-Maire traps, 

 we find that the female moths only go to the traps after depositing 

 their eggs, so that this is useless as a means of control. 



In Cej'lon it is also found on Hibiscus. 



Have any parasites been reared ? 



We have bred a Braconid and a Tachinid. 



We have a Tachinid in Mysore also. 



The dift'erences in foodplants exhibited by Prodenia liliira ix\ India 

 and Egj-pt raise a suspicion that different species are really implicated. 

 It would be interesting to compare the male genitaha of Indian and 

 Egyptian specimens. 



Spodoptera peclen, Gn, 

 Hmpsn., F, I, II, 264 [Caradrina pectinala], Cat. VIII, 252-253, f. 63. 



Has been reared at Pusa from larvae on dubli and other grasses and 

 fiom a larva found on maize leaves. We have also moths from Peshawar, 

 Comilla and Lashio (Upper Burma), so that it is widely distributed 

 and likely to be found anywhere on cereal crops. Hitherto, however,, 

 it has not been reported as a pest. 



