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plentiful, will be picked up and eaten hx them. If birds are not 

 numerous hand-pickinp[ must be resorted to. 



(3) Another good method of checking the pest is to dust the plants 



over a few times in the evening with a mixture of quicklime and 

 ashes, or better still, add the arsenic compound paris-green to the 

 two in the following proportion : One ounce of paris-green with 

 one ounce of unslaked lime and 3 lb. of ashes. Powder the sub- 

 stances together very finely, put them into a calico bag, and dust 

 over the plants, loosening the soil around them first. 



(4) In nursery beds already attacked the surface of the soil should be 



carefully inspected, and all holes containing portions of leaves, 

 stalks, etc., should be dug up and the larvae at the bottom killed. 

 This was the method resorted to at Gora Gali by Mr. B. O. 

 Coventry, and gave good results. 



(5) Water the beds with a solution of copper sulphate. This pene- 



trates to the roots and often kills the grubs. 



It should be borne in mind, however, that our efforts should be in the 

 direction of preventing the attack commencing, or at any rate from becoming 

 serious. With this object numbers (i) and (3) of the above remedies are 

 recommended. The former would be well understood, since the practice of 

 poisoning jackals and porcupines is a ver}' common one amongst the natives 

 of India. 



EUCHIRUS. 



Euchirus macleayi, Ho. 



Reference. — Ho. Ann. Nat. Hist, iv, p. 300 (140). 



Habitat. — Naini Tal, Eastern Himalaya, and Assam. 



Tree Attacked. — Oak [Quercus sp?). Naini Tal (R. C. Thompson). 



Beetle. — Large, easily recognized by the enormously prolonged anterior legs of the male, 



several inches in length and spined. Head and prothorax green, shining ; elytra black 



mottled with brown, red, or orange spots and markings. Head small, 



Description. front concave. Prothorax convex with a deep longitudinal median 



depression, broadest posteriorly; widest in posterior third; sides rounded. 



with serrate edges ; densely punctate save for shining areas on disk. Elytra smooth, pygidium 



and under-surface densely clothed with a very long whitish or yellowish pubescence forming 



a thick wool. Tibiae of all legs heavily spined. The long legs in the ^ may be 3J in. 



in length, very thick, with long tibiae and tarsi. Length (without legs), 50 mm. to 75 mm. 



This insect is commonly supposed to be chiefly found in the Eastern 



Himalaya and Assam. Thompson, in his Report on 



Destructive Insects, has the following note on Euchirus, 



and shows a photograph of the beetle in question, which would 



