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Miopristis bimaculata, Jac. 



Jacoby, F. I. Clirysom., pp. 99-100, fig. 21. 

 The adult beetles have been found at Pusa in small numbers eating 

 flowers of rice on 8th October 1917, and have also been found on cotton 

 leaf and on grass. We have it also from Ohapra. It is probably not 

 common enough to do any real damage. 



Diapro)))orpha niclanopiis, Lac. 



Jacoby, F. 1. Chrysom., pp. 168-169, fig. G4. 



In Indian Museum Notes, I, ii. p. 106 (1889) this species is recorded 

 as received in 1885 from iSibsagar from 8. E. Peal who noticed it as 

 "" eating the stems of tea-shoots so that they wither and droop." 



The Pusa Collection contains specimens from the Khasis (1000-3000), 

 and Shillong, Buxar Duars. Maymyo. Lebong. Palamau, Chapra, Munshi- 

 ganj and Pusa. At Pusa the adult has been taken on Bombax mala- 

 baricum, but we do not know it as a pest here. 



In Assam it occurs every year as a very important pest of tea all Mr. Andrews, 

 over the tea districts, especially along the edges of jungles. It bites 

 half-way through the stem which droops and withers. Every planter 

 knows it and it is destroyed by hand-picking. 



In Assam this insect is apparently called the Orange Beetle on account Mr. Fletcher, 

 of its colour, and it is so referred to in Watt and Mann's " Pests and 

 Bhghts of the Tea Plant." As you know, before the appointment of 

 any regular Government Entomologists in India, information about 

 insect pests, along with various other matters, was dealt with under a 

 scissors-and-paste method in the office of the Reporter on Economic 

 Products and these files on insect pests were finally transferred to Pusa. 

 On looking up the file on this insect I find that the name " Orange Beetle " 

 proved too much for the Office Staff of the Reporter on Economic Pro- 

 ducts, with the result, *hat this beetle was solemnly filed under the 

 heading " Pests of Citrus trees." 



Cryptocephah.is dodccaspilns, Sulf. 



Jacoby, F. I. Chrysom., pp. 252-253, fig. 97 ; Proc. Second 

 Entl. Meeting, p. 264. 

 The adult beetles were found in some numbers damaging rose-leaves 

 at Abbottabad on 10th June 1916. We also have it from Maymyo, 

 taken in June 1910. 



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