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What percentage of trees is damaged ? Blr. Fletcher. 



Two trees in every one hundred to five hundred are damaged every Mr. Deshpande. 

 year. 



The proportion does not seem very high but it soon mounts up in the Mr. Fletcher. 

 course of a few years in the case of a permanent crop hke coconut. 



The larvae tunnel under the bark and the stem bleeds. Mr. Ramachaodia 



Rao. 



Is the attack associated with any fungal disease ? Mr. Fletcher. 



That is not known. It is very widely spread. No remedial measures Mr. Deshpande. 

 have been adopted. An attacked tree is bored and riddled from top to 

 bottom. 



It also bores into the leaf-petioles at the top of the tree. Mr. Ramrao. 



Only a few trees were found attacked in a coconut garden on the Mr. Ramachandra 

 Malabar coast, and these trees were scattered about. Rao. 



Did you get any idea as to why particular trees were attacked ? Mr. Fletcher. 



Probably those trees were unhealthy. A single tree may harbour ^j, Ramacbandra 

 1,000 grubs but the number of attacked trees is not great. Rao. 



If the attacked trees are scattered about and not near one another, Mr Fletcher. 

 it looks as if the weevil attacked sickly trees. 



Deiradolcus (n. g. MshU. MS.) n. sp. 



This weevil was found at Shillong in June-July 1918, the adults on 

 mulberry, apple, pear and fruit trees generally, nibbhng holes in leaves 

 and doing considerable damage, being present in very large numbers. 



In the case of fruit trees, control was practised by collection by hand 

 of the adult beetles. 



{Undetermined Curcidionid.) 



The adults were found at Dohad on maize leaves in numbers on 16th 

 August 1917. It is apparently a minor pest. 



( Undetermined Curculionid.) 



This weevil was reported from Poona in August 1915 by Eamrao 

 S. Kasargode, the larva boring in fruits of Zizyj)hus jujuha of a variety 

 called Ahmedabad her. They change the shape of the fruits. The 

 natural shape of the fruit is long, but attacked fruits are always round 

 berry-hke. 



There were about half-a-dozen trees in the Ganeshkhind Gardens Mr. Ramrao. 

 at Poona and this weevil attacked the fruits very badly. This, however^ 

 is not a generally distributed pest. 



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