p£a beetles. 



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pulse and a lliird is recorded in tamarinds.^ Several wild species have 

 been found and wild leg-uminous plants are probably extensively attacked. 



Fig. 307. 

 The Red Beetle. {Maffiiijied.) 



]\iotlis are also injurious to g-rain^ flour and similar products^ and it is 



Fig. 308. 



Beans attacked by beetles, showing the holes of exit made by the leetles and the 



discs cut in the sJcin, 



uncertain as yet which species are concerned. One small moth, known as 



^ Caryoboms tjouagra, F. (Bi-ucbidie.) 



