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Tiasad found it at Jeolikote on apple seedlings and on a loquat tree. 

 The adult beetle has a partiality for rose leaves and has been noted 

 specially on rose at Eangalore, whilst in Calcutta it also attacks leaves 

 of Lagtrsircemia and Cannas. In Samoa the adult is a pest of cacao and 

 the larva feeds on roots of grasses, etc. At Pusa the larva was found 

 at roots of oats and the adult beetle reared out emerged on 1st May 

 1915 ; a pupa was also found at Pusa underground in an indigo field 

 and from this the adult emerged on 4th September 1917. The Pusa 

 Collection also contains examples from Murshidabad, Buxar Duars, 

 Sylhet, Tejpur (Assam), Coimbatore and the Nilgiris. It is a very 

 widely distributed species. 



Adoreius caliginosus, Burm. 



P. I., Rutel. pp. 355-356 ; Entl. Note 19 ; Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, p. 264 ; Ann. Kept. Impl. Entom. 1917-1918, p. 93," 

 t. ll,ff. a-d(1918). 



This species has been reared at Pusa from larvse found at roots of 

 grasses, rice, sugarcane and Saccharum sfontaneum, the adult beetles 

 emerging at the end of April. We have it also from Surat (5th May 

 1904), Bababudin Hills (March to April), Santikoppa (N. Coorg ; 4th- 

 10th May 1914), Jorhat (29th June 1907) and Tharrawaddy. 



Arrow also records it from Kangra Valley, Sikkim, Sarda (Bengal), 

 Belgaiun, Bandra, Nilgiris (3^500 feet) and Rangoon. 



Cetoniad^. 



Heterrorhina elegans, Fb. 



.Arrow, P. I. Ceton. pp. 93-94 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 182. 



This is a large metallic green or blue species which occurs on cholam 



flower-heads in small numbers at Coimbatore, eating the pollen, but t 



is not looked on as a pest. We also have it from Chapra and Arrow 



.also records it from Malda, Chota Nagpur, Mysore, Trichinopoly, Nilgiris 



and Ceylon. 



I teats the pollen but does not do appreciable damage as it does Mr. Ranrtl-'iGhca 

 not occur in large numbers. Ayj^ar. 



AnfhracophGra crucifera, 0]\v.{=atromacuhta, Fb.) 



Arrow, F. I. Ceton. pp. 110-111 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeticg. p. 182. 



This species has been found at Coimbatore on cholam and Lantniui Mr, Flelcbor. 

 ihwt is not looked on as a pe.st. It is widely distributed and the Pu>a 



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