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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING^ 



Poena it has been found boring into guava stems and at Surat tlie larvse 

 were found in August 1917 in numbers in a mango stem which had 

 apparently been killed by them. Stebbing also records it in mango 

 at Chicacole, and it may be looked on as a sporadic pest of mango. 



Mr. P. C Sen. 



Julodis atkinsoni, Kerr. 



Ind. Mus. Notes IV, ii, 48-49, fig. (1896). 



Reported as very destructive in June 1895 to the cotton and melon 

 crops in the Lieah Tahsil of Dehra Ismail Khan. 



There are no specimens in Pusa Collection and it has not since been 

 reported as a pest. 



Trachys sp. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 134. 



This species occurs as a pest of jute chiefly in Bengal and the adja- 

 cent parts of Bihar, the larva mining the leaves. At Pusa it is not 

 common, whilst at Dacca jute plants left for seed have been noted to 

 have been riddled with holes. It has also been noted on jute at Rang- 

 pur and Purnea but it is usually regarded as only a minor pest of jute. 



It is only a minor pest of jute, for which no remedy is necessary. 



Mr Fletcher. 



Mr. Ramakrishna 

 Ayyar. 



Trachys bicolor. 



The larvae of this species have been found mining Butea frondosa 

 leaves in South Malabar. 



It is found as a bad pest of Butea frondosa in the Walayar Forest, 

 in South Malabar. The leaves appear bHstered when attacked. 



{Unidentified Buprestid.) 



Mr. Fletcl er. This species was sent to us from Simla by Messrs. W. M. Cotton 



& Co., as boring cherry trees in the larval stage. These cherry 

 trees had been imported and were five years old. The larva apparently 

 hatched between the bark and the wood, and the pupa was embedded 

 in the hard wood. The outside bark was riddled with oval holes as 

 large as the head of a match, but these did not contain hving insects. 



Mr. Senior-White. 



[Chrysochroa sp. 



This is an occasional pest of cultivated roses at Matale, the beetles 

 getting into the middle of the flowers and eating out the flowers.] 



