Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Anstead. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
Mr. Andrews. 
Mr. Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr, Fletcher. 
a8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
CAMPHOR. 
Camphor seems to be rather free from insect pests, as we might 
indeed expect to be the case. The only insect-pest I know of is a small 
Gracilariad (Acrocercops ordinatella), which mines the leaves. Thig 
was sent in to us from Mysore by Mr. Anstead as doing some damage. 
I have not been able to obtain it again. 
We will go on with the insects of a few plants which I have listed 
under the heading of :— 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
They are hardly crops but you may have to deal with insects found on 
them. ' 
MimMosores ELENGI (Bakul). 
This is a small tree which is grown commonly for its ornamental 
appearance and for the flowers. The leaves are sometimes attacked and 
considerably damaged by larvee of Metanastria hyrtaca. 
A Thrips is very bad on this tree at Coimbatore. 
RAtNn-TREE (Pithecololium saman). 
The rain-tree is another miscellaneous tree, of no great value, but 
often grown as a roadside shade or ornamental tree, so that you may be 
called on to treat it for pests. It does not seem to have many serious 
pests but is sometimes bored by Arbela and must therefore be considered 
as an alternative food-plant where this insect does damage to crop- 
trees. 
In the Duars the leaves are stripped by the beetles of Astycus 
chrysochlorus. 
In Coimbatore on one occasion some kind of Lac was found in thick 
incrustations on the branches of this tree. 
LANTANA (Lantana aculeata). 
We now come to Lantana, about which I said something yesterday. 
Lantana was originally a South American shrub which was introduced 
as an ornamental garden-plant. [ believe that it was introduced into Cey- 
lon about the year 1828 and it has presumably been in India for seventy 
or eighty years now. In some districts it has quite got out of hand and 
become a weed pest of the worst description, choking out all other vegeta- 
tion, and this has become a serious matter already in many parts of 
Southern India and Ceylon and will, I think, in the near future prov 
