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CasHEew (Anacardium occidentale). 
The leaves of cashew are sometimes seriously defoliated by cater- Mr. Fletcher. 
pillars of Cricula trifenestrata, which we considered under mango. 
In Bangalore and South Kanara the shoots are attacked by Helo- Mr. T. V. Rama- 
peltis antonii, and the leaves are also attacked by Ceroplastes floridensis ktishna Ayyar. 
at Bangalore. 
MuLpBerry (Morus spp.). 
Mulberry is not usually grown as a fruit tree in India but it is fre- Mr. Fletcher. 
quently planted as a shade-tree and is of course used extensively also for 
rearing silkworms. 
Mulberry leaves do not seem to be much eaten by insects and at 
Pusa, where we grow mulberry extensively as food for silkworms, we 
have never had any trouble due to attacks of caterpillars or other leaf- 
eaters. Weevils may nibble the leaves at times and Sympiezomias cre- 
taceus has been found doing this at Bangalore. 
Boring beetles often do considerable damage and amongst these we 
may consider :— 
Apriona germarc. 
5 evnerea. 
Sthenias grisator. 
Apriona germari does considerable damage to mulberry in North- 
Western India and is described and figured by Stebbing in his “ Indian 
Forest Coleoptera,” pp. 371-374, fig. 249. 
At Abbottabad a longicorn larva was found boring mulberry trees 
seriously in May 1916, the larval gallery generally running up and down 
the tree just below the bark and the boring being plainly visible by the 
accumulation of extruded fragments of wood. A larva was brought 
back to Pusa but could not be reared ; possibly it may have been Apriona 
germart. 
Apriona cinerea is recorded by Stebbing [I. c., p. 374] as damaging 
mulberry at Dehra Dun by the beetles stripping the bark off the leading 
shoots and twigs. 
In the Central Provinces a longicorn beetle eats the bark of mulberry Mr. Ratiram. 
trees, but I cannot say what the beetle is. 
Sthenias grisator was found ringing mulberry at Coimbatore and a mp. Fletcher. 
good deal of damage was done by the beetles cutting off branches. We 
discussed this beetle under Erythrina. 
Sthenias grisator is quite a common pest of mulberry in that way at Mr. T. V. Rama- 
Coimbatore. krishna Ayyar. 
i have also found adult beetles of Glenea multiguttata resting on mul- Mr. Fletcher. 
berry at Bangalore as if they were attracted to this plant, but I cannot 
