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In Madras Chilades laius is found damaging orange shoots. 
Tonica zizyphi [South Indian Insects,” p. 459, fig. 335] occurs 
throughout the Plains of India as a very minor pest of orange and lemon, 
the larva rolling the young leaves. 
Chrysomelid beetles were found at Myitkyina in Upper Burma, 
in September 1914, on orange, eating out patches from the under- 
surface of the leaves and doing considerable damage. This beetle is a 
golden-green Cassid, not yet identified. 
Peltotrachelus pubes is a weevil found commonly on orange trees 
in the Shevaroy Hills, where it is apparently a minor pest. 
Boring in the stems of Crtrus trees, we have :— 
Stromatium barbatum. 
Chloridolum alemene. 
Agrilus grisator. 
Gnatholea eburifera. 
Arbela tetraonis. 
Stromatium barbatum [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 321-322, fig. 175] 
is usually a borer in dead wood but in the Central Provinces it attacks 
living orange trees. An account of this has recently been given by Mr. 
Khare in the Jowrnal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. XXIV, 
pp. 610-612. The hfehistory seems to be irregular in length and may 
extend to two years. 
Chloridolum alemene [“* South Indian Insects,”’ p. 323, fig. 177] occurs 
in the orange-growing tracts in the South Indian Hills, and does serious 
damage by the larva boring in the stems and large branches. But it 
seems to be rather sporadic in its occurrence. 
When I was in Coorg in October 1915, I found a small orange-coloured 
Cerambycid (7) grub boring into shoots of orange-trees at Virajpet, 
in West Coorg. It was in large numbers and was doing great damage, 
killing back the young shoots. The only remedy was to cut back the 
shoots and kill the grubs. Unfortunately the beetle could not be reared 
out, but it was apparently not Chloridolum. 
Agrilus grisator is recorded in *‘ Indian Insect Life,’’ p. 331, as reared 
from lemon trees, but we do not know it as a pest. 
Gnatholea eburifera was found at Moulmein boring orange trees, 
but otherwise we do not know of its doing damage. 
Arbela tetraonis [“ South Indian Insects,” pp. 453-454, tab. 41] 
is widely distributed in the Plains of India and has been recorded boring 
in orange at Bangalore, Poona and Nagpur. In the Central Provinces 
it is said to be a pest, although it is a little doubtful whether the species 
concerned is A. tetraonis or A. quadrinotata. Be this as it may, the 
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Mr.” Ramakrishna 
Ayyar. 
Mr. Fletcher. 
