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Andrews (E. A.). Entomologist's tour in the Darjeeling and Terai 

 districts. — QrtJy. Jl. Scient. Dept. Ind. Tea Assoc, Calcutta, 

 Part iii, 1915, pp. 75-78. 

 During a tour in the Darjeeling and Terai districts, large numbers of 

 young specimens of a Reduviid bug belonging to the genus Harpactor 

 were observed to be brought in by the children who were catching tea 

 mosquitos (Hehpeltis). The collection of these predators should be 

 prevented. In one garden the number of Harpactor reached, on 

 occasion, 25 per cent, of the whole catch. Around Lebong, the 

 dadap trees were found to be attacked by an insect closely resembling 

 Etnpoasca flavescens (tea green-fly), but which closer examination 

 showed to be more nearly allied to E. notat<i. The insects seem to be 

 gregarious, and the undersides of the leaves were covered with them 

 in all stages. The leaf is attacked from the under surface and becomes 

 covered with pale blotches, which turn yellow until eventually the 

 whole leaf dies back. The young shoots and leaves also tend to 

 become stunted. Spraying from below with kerosene emulsion or 

 potassium sulphide should easily control this pest. 



AssMUTH (J.). Indian Wood-Destroying "White Ants". — Qrtly. Jl. 



Scient. Dept. Ind. Tea Assoc, Calcutta, Part iii, 1915, pp. 79-80. — 



[Abstract from Jl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, London, xxiii, no. 4, 



1915, pp. 690-694.] 



As a residt of investigations carried out in the provinces of Bengal, 



Behar, Bombay, and Madras, the termites doing damage to the wood 



of buildings in British India are found to belong to three species, 



Leiicotermes indicola, Coptotermes heimi, and Odotitotermes feae, though 



it seems possible that in Sind a species of Microtermes has also acquired 



the habit. Wood-destroying termites were not found in the Ghats of 



South Canara and Mysore at a higher level than 3,000-4,000 feet above 



sea-level. Termites do not appear to start an attack on healthy trees, 



though this is sometimes thought to be the case, owing to true ants 



being mistaken for them. 



Waterston (J.). Notes on African Chalcidoidea (III). — Bidl. Entom. 

 Research, London, vi, no. 3, December 1915, pp. 231-247, 8 figs. 

 The follo^^ing species are described :• — Tetrastichus atriclavus, sp. n., 

 from Southern Nigeria; T. ^nawripennis, sp. n., from Nyasaland; 

 T. scidpturatus, sp. n., bred from the larva of a butterfly, Neptis agatha, 

 from Uganda and T. balteatus, sp. n., bred from the pupa of a Lyman- 

 triid moth from Nyasaland. Synfomosphyrum pjiaeosoma, Wtrst., 

 has been bred from Sylepta derogata (cotton leaf-roller) in Nyasaland. 



Williams (C. B.). A new Thrips damaging Coffee in British East 



Africa. — Bull. Eutom. Research, Londoyi, vi, no. 3, December 1915, 



pp. 209-272, 1 fig. 



Diarthrothrips coffeae, gen. et sp. n., is described. This thrips has 



caused serious damage to the leaves of coffee in several districts of 



British East Africa. Amongst the larvae of D. coffeae was a single 



larva of a thrips belonging to the family Aeolothripidae. The 



known larvae of this family are largely, if not entirely, predaceous on 



other thrips and it is probable that this species was feeding on the 



larvae of D. coffeae. 



