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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Mr. P. C. Sen. 



Mr. Nowroji. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



Mr. luglis. 



I have found them in numbers underground around the trunks of 

 mango trees but have never found them breeding. 

 I found it at Dacca under the bark of a mango tree. 



Pachyonyx quadridens, Chevr. 

 At our First Meeting, in February 1915, this species was reported 

 as found on Butea frondosa in the Northern Circle of the Central Provinces 

 and was said to kill the trees. We have adults from Khandesh and from 

 Banga (Punjab) ; these latter were taken on Butea frondosa on 19th 

 September 1905. We have no further information about it, but it would 

 appear that this weevil is a pest of Butea which, I may remind you, is an 

 important host-tree of lac in many districts. _ 



Desmdofhorus hebes, Fb. 



Ind. Mus. Notes I 58, II vi 151, III i 23 ; Proc. Second Entl. 

 Meeting, pp. 128, 131. 



We have this from Dehra Dun, Pusa, Darbhanga, and Nongpoh 

 (Khasi Hills). 



In Indian Museum Notes this species is recorded as attacking young 

 Hibiscus plants in the Rajbagh, Darbhanga, eating the youiig stems and 

 in some cases causing the young plants to die. On 9th July 1906 the 

 Superintendent of the Rajbagh sent us further specimens and wrote : — 

 " they have been damaging plants a,nd are particularly fond of eating 

 the new tops and chewing the lower parts of almost all the shoots. I get 

 them caught by hundreds every morning and evening." 



This species was also sent in to us, the adult beetles damaging Bomhax 

 seedUngs, defoliating those of one to two years old ; these beetles appeared 

 in the third week of April 1904 in the Tista Forest Division. 



It has not been noted as a pest at Pusa. 



I have only seen this in one year when this weevil appeared in millions 

 in one local area and attacked the garden Hibiscus and did much damage. 



Acythopeus citrulli, Blshll. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 306. 



Mr. Fletcher. This species was reported from Hagari (Bellary) as a bad pest of 



water-melons in April 1908, the grubs boring into the side in contact 

 with the ground ; the larva tunnels in the fruit, filUng its passage with 

 excrement, and causes decomposition. It apparently occurs regularly 

 in Bellary as a pest of water-melon, and is also known from Tinnevelly. 

 We have also one specimen from Nagpur labelled " fruit of Kakandu, 

 IX, 1915." 



