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Tamarind {Tamarindus 



Fruits 

 .(Stored). 



Stauropiis alteriius 



Virachola isocrates . 

 Calaiidra lineari)!, Hbst. 



?. I. I., p. 408, If. 

 279-280. 



I., pp. 416-41'; 



One Hundr e fl 

 Notes, p. 10. 



Walnut. 



iSaturiiia (Caligula) slmla 

 Oxyambulyx sericeipennk. But). 



Belippa laleana, Mo. 



I. 1. L., p. 501, 

 t. 28, f. 14. 



Coiiub a t o r e, 

 Ganjam, South 

 India. 



South India. 



Pusa 



S nila (13th 

 July 1907). 



Shillong 



Water-melon {Citrullus vulgaris). 



Sp-ruits . AcyihopemcitnaU,yif,h\\. . .. Hagari 



Chcetodacus ciicurbita;, Cocj. 



Dacus brevisUjlus 



Bezzi. Bull. Ento. 

 Res. VII, 109- 

 110, 1916. 



Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, p. 305. 



Hagari. 



Larva also on 

 tin, Treiria nudi- 

 folia and tea. 



Breeds in stored 

 fruits. 



Eaeh larva de- 

 foliates consi- 

 derably. 



Larva does 

 slight damage 

 by feeding on 

 the leaves. 



of 



Reported as 

 bad pest 

 water-mel o n s 

 in April 1908. 

 Orubs bore into 

 the side on the 

 ground. They 

 tunnel into the 

 fruits filling the 

 passage with 

 excrement and 

 cause decom- 

 position. 



Larva in water- 



Waternut {Trapa bispinosa) (Vern. Singhara). 



Gaierucelli Singhara 



Bhandara 

 (Central Pro- 

 vinces), Shakar- 

 tala (Central 

 Prov i n c e s), 

 Muzaffarp u r, 

 Cawnpore. 



A bad p('st of 

 Singhara. 



Wood-apple {Feronia elephantum) 



Leaves . 

 Fruits 



Farasa lepida 

 Argyro place illepida 



Euzophera 

 Hmpsn. 



plumbeifatciella, 



S.I. I., 410-411 . , South Indi 



Proc. Sec. Ent. i 

 Conf. 1917, p. 230. 



Hmpsn. F. I. IV, 



Bores into the 

 fruits. 



Scarcely a pest. 



Most of these insects have also been discussed in the general list of Mr. Fletche*. 

 crop-pests. We have been collecting information on Fruit-pests for 

 some years now and it will be useful to have a hst of the various fruit- 

 ^rees showing what insects we know as attacking each. 



