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( Unidentified Lamiad.) 



This was foimd in tlie adult stage at Moulmein in September 1914 

 on sweet-potato and had apparently been breeding on this plant. 



{Unidentified Lamiad.) 



Ann. Kept. Impl. Entom., pp. 17-18, f. 99, t. 15, ff. 2a-c (1918). 



This species was sent to us from Latu (Sylhet) by S. R. Gupta, the 

 larva boring and killing orange shoots. The larva3 bore into the new 

 shoots which appear in spring and cause them to wither. The beetles 

 emerged at Pusa in March and April. We have an apparently similar 

 specimen taken in the Buxar Duars in May 1907. 



Mr. Gupta. I found it common in the Surma and Assam Valleys. The grub 



bores in young orange shoots which wither. The tree is never killed 

 but it bears less fruit. I have found this borer wherever I have searched 

 for it. We have cut out the withered shoots, but the pest was found 

 again. The orange-garden at Latu is isolated from other orange gardens 

 but is alongside a big forest and very probably this pest comes in from 

 the forest plants ; but this is not known definitely. In one plot we cut 

 off almost all the withered shoots but the insect was still present after 

 • a time. 



Mr. Andrews. It is difficult to grow orange trees in Assam. This insect is known 



to do damage in a garden where there are only a few orange trees. 



{Unidentified Lamiad.) 



Mr Fle.'cier. This was sent in to us from Bengal by D. N. Pal with the information 



that it was reared on 12th September 1907 from a larva in jute stem and 

 that it is said to do damage. We have no further information about 

 it. 



Cerambycid^. 



Lophosfermis hugelii, Redt. 



Gahan, F. I. Ceramb., pp. 11-12 ; Stebb., Ind. For. Ins. Col., 

 pp. 274-275, t. 17 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 248. 



We have this from Simla, Dehra Dun and Chaubattia (Kumaon). 

 At Chaubattia the larva was found attacking roots and trunks of apple 

 trees. 



Gahan gives the distribution of this species as Kashmir, the North- 

 West Frontier Provinces, Punjab and Assam. Stebbing states that the 

 larva feeds on Quercus incana and probably Q. dilatat'u 



