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The seedlings are occasionally attacked by Desmidophorus hebes. 
We have a record of this at Jalpaiguri, in May 1904, when these weevils 
were found attacking seedlings in the forest plantation as well as in 
the forest nursery. 
On the leaves we get :— 
Tenaphalera elongata. 
Apogonia ferruginea. 
Tenaphalera elongata, Crawf., is a curious green Psyllid which occurs 
at Pusa on the undersurface of the leaves, generally at the beginning 
of December. The attack may be very severe, but is of less importance 
as the leaves fall off the trees in another couple of months’ time. 
Apogonia ferruginea attacks the new leaves at Pusa in May and 
June and these leaves are frequently found riddled and skeletonized, 
due to the attack of this Chafer. The beetles fly at dusk and may then 
be seen in swarms flying around and feeding on the leaves. 
The flowers and pods of Bombax are attacked by the larve of 
Mudaria cornifrons, which occurs at Pusa in large numbers in the pods 
when these ripen in April. The larvee feed on the seeds and spoil the 
lint ; when full-fed they emerge from the pods and burrow in the ground, 
the resulting moths emerging in March of the next year. 
The shoots (and stems in the case of young plants) are bored by the 
larve of Tonica niviferana, whose lifehistory is shown in a coloured 
plate [exhibited] now in the press. It is not a serious pest, but the 
young growth is stunted. It occurs at Pusa and Nagpur and is probably 
widely distributed, but is not a bad pest. 
Boring in the trunk we find several longicorn beetles :— 
Batocera rubus. 
Acanthophorus serraticornis. 
Plocaderus obesus. 
Glenea spilota. 
Batocera rubus has been bred at Pusa from a larva in a Bombax stem, 
but we seem to know very little of its occurrence in this tree. 
Acanthophorus serraticornis [** South Indian Insects,” pp. 319-320, 
fig. 173] was found at Bangalore on Bombaz, but it is not certain whether 
it was breeding in this tree. 
Plocederus obesus is recorded as from Bombax malabaricum in the 
United Provinces [Stebbing, “ Forest Coleoptera,’ pp. 295-300, figs. 205- 
206] but we have no further knowledge of it. 
Glenea spilota is also recorded from simul in “ Indian Insect Life ” 
but probably only occurs in decaying stems. [see Stebbing, “ Forest 
Coleoptera,” p. 379]. 
