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on the coffee-bushes and may do a little damage at times, but Aularches 
can hardly be classed as a bad pest of coffee. 
Then there is a Leaf-miner which is quite common in the Coffee 
Districts in Southern India. It is probably a fly but I have never been 
able to rear anything out, although I have collected scores if not hundreds 
of mined leaves. It is more of a curiosity than a pest, but I mention 
it in case any of you may be able to rear it out successfully. 
Then there are the two weevils, Sympiezomias frater and S. cretaceus, 
which occur on coffee-bushes in Southern India and nibble the leaves ; 
but they are scarcely pests. 
Serica pruinosa has also been reported (I.M.N. III. 117) as defoliating 
coffee-bushes at Devikulam in the Madura District in June 1892 and also 
in Travancore (I.M.N. III. No. 6 p. 3). 
Then we come to pests of Coffee-seedlings, and here we meet with 
two serious pests :— 
Euxoa segetis 
Pseudococcus (Dactylopius) citri. 
Euxoa segetis is a common cut-worm in the Hills of Southern India 
and has been recorded as doing serious damage to Coffee-seedlings in 
Mysore. : 
Apterite has been tried and found useful in such cases. Mr 
Usually in the case of these cut-worms, mechanical measures, such Mr 
as grubbing up the soil with a stick and collecting the larve, give the 
best results. 
Pseudococeus curt is sometimes a bad pest of young coffee-plants Mr 
especially after they have been planted out. When in South Coorg I 
saw a good many cases of this, and in some cases at all events Apterite 
had been used quite successfully. 
Dactylopius is particularly bad in South Coorg, and Apterite has been Mr. 
tried there with great success. It is apphed, generally before the mon- 
soon, in rings about an inch deep around the seedlings. 
Has anyone else tried Apterite ? Mr. 
I have tried it against Ground-beetles but did not find it of much use. Mr. 
. Anstead.. 
. Fletcher. 
. Fletcher. 
Anstead. 
Fletcher. 
Ghosh. 
Besides Pseudococcus, we have several insects which attack the roots Mr. Fletcher. 
of coffee-bushes although we know very little about them. There are 
several Melolonthid grubs, one of which is probably Holotrichia conferta, 
which Mr. Anstead has sent us from Santikoppa, in North Coorg. Cica- 
das, again, emerge in some districts in enormous numbers from the eround 
in certain years, and, although we really know nothing of their lifehis- 
tories in India, we may presume judging from the records of lifehistories 
in other parts of the World, that they spend their early stages as root- 
feeders and therefore may do damage to coffee. It seems very probable 
