As it seems, the larvae of several species of this genus live 

 by preferense in fresh truit-flesh ; I already observée! them in 

 the fruits of the mango, the coffee-tree, the Nephelium, the 

 Achras sapota etc. 



2. Epilachna territa, Muls., 



3. Epilachna pusillanima, Muls, and 



4. Epilachna pytho, Muls. 



Thèse herbivorous Ladybirds, whieh hâve a great super- 

 ficial resemblance to raany of the oarnivorous species of the same 

 family, may often be found on cultivated plants of the family 

 Sulanaceae, such as tomato's, Solanum melongena (aubergine, brinjal), 

 potatoes, Capsicum, e.o. 



The spinous larvae, which hâve some resemblance to small 

 Limacodid catterpillars, also eat the leaves of thèse plants, but 

 neither the beetles nor the larvae devour the leaves entirely ; 

 they only make a great niunber of small holes, but nevertheless 

 the plants often surfer severely from this pest, 



VIII. CAMPHORA OFFICINARUM. 



Oracilaria spec. There are only a few plantations of the 

 camphor-tree in Java, but as far as I know, ail of thèse hâve been 

 attacked by the small, leaf-mining caterpillar of a Tineid moth 

 belonging to the genus Oracilaria. Even a solitary tree in the 

 Agricultural G-ardens hère, and a similar one near the manager's 

 house i >f the < rovernment G-utta-percha Plantations in the Preanger 

 Regencies, the latter at even more than a mile from a small 

 plantation, hâve suffered from it. 



After hatching from the eggs, the extremely small iarva 

 burrows into the leaf, mining under the epidermis and during 

 the first days makes a very narrow passage, which is far less 

 curved than is the case with other Gracilaria-lRYVàe. Afterwards 

 it makes a very broad cavity, sometimes as great as half the 

 surface of the leaf, above which the epidermis is visible as a 

 whitish vesicle. The latter by drying out, compels the leaf to 

 partially curl itself up, so that the injury is a very peculiar one 

 and easily recognizable, even at a long period after the full-grown 

 larva bas left its mine for pupation. 



