Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Kunhi 
Kannan. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Anstead. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
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be asked to pay rewards for beetles caught beyond the limits of his own 
Estate. 
I have heard both these objections advanced by Coffee-planters. 
As regards the recognition of the Coffee-borer beetles, there is a diffi- 
culty, and I have even come across Planters in two Coffee-Districts, 
who knew the Borer grub well but had not the least idea what the beetle 
looked like. I have even had Aularches sent in to me by a Coftlee- 
planter with a request for information as to whether it was the Borer. 
But with a little trouble there should be no difficulty in recognizing 
XAylotrechus. As a matter of fact, when I was in Coorg in November 
1915, we showed some beetles to a gang of small boys and sent them out 
with bottles to hunt for these beetles, and they brought in a very large 
number, practically all Xylotrechus guadripes. As regards the collect- 
ing of the beetles outside Estate limits to earn rewards, I think this 
should easily be arranged with a little supervision. 
Another species which one finds in Mysore is Xylotrechus subscutel- 
latus. This looks very like X. quadripes but does not lay eggs in the 
coffee-bushes. 
Xylotrechus subscutellatus occurs in Coorg also, and I had a few brought 
in mixed up with quadripes. There is also a Mordellid beetle which 
is a most exact mimic of X. quadripes. Such species certainly could not 
be distinguished except by an entomologist, but the small proportion 
of such species brought in would not, in my opinion, invalidate the 
desirability of collection of Borer beetles. . 
We will go on to Zeuzera coffe, the ‘‘ Red Borer” of the Coffee- 
planters. It occurs in all the Coffee-Districts, but does not seem to 
be very common as a rule. 
It is not a very important pest of the coffee-bushes nor is it difficult 
to tackle. The branches that contain the borer die back and so may 
easily be located and lopped off. 
Then there are the Collyrine Tiger-beetles whose larvee are some- 
times found boring in coffee twigs. But they are not pests as far as we 
know. 
We will go to the Sucking Insects found on coffee. On my list I 
have :— 
Antestia cruciata Lecanium hemisphericum 
Coccus viridis af nigrum 
Pseudecoccus cilri “e ole. 
Pulvinaria psidi Chionasprs biclavis. 
Of these, Coccus viridis or Lecanium viride, the ‘‘ Green scale”’, 
is by far the most important, and as some work has been done on this in 
