504 Records of the Indian Museuin. [VoL. XI, 
Scolytidae. 
The supposed effect of moonlight on the attack of the ‘‘ shot- 
borer’’ is discussed in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History 
Society by Troup (XVII, p. 526), Barton-Wright (XVII, pp. 1026-7) 
and Stebbing (XVIII, pp. 18-26).' 
Strohmeyer (Ent. Blat., 1914, pp. 103-107) suggests that the 
group of bristles and processes on the head of the female of 
Spathidicerus thomsont serves for the transport of ambrosia fun- 
gus spores. Mr. Beeson tells me that he has found inside the fron- 
tal processes of the swarming female of Diapus furtivus bunches 
of small cell-like bodies of similar appearance to the clusters of 
ambrosia which occur in its galleries. They stain with cotton 
blue, but he has been unable to germinate them. ‘The male of 
this species, he tells me, possesses a group of minute pores near 
the apex of each elytron, which secrete a white wax ‘The wax 
is moulded into a cylindrical tube which projects about a third of 
an inch from the entrance-hole in the bark of the host-tree. The 
male brings up the pellets of excrement from the sapwood galleries, 
in which the larvae live, into the wax-tube and, collecting a mass 
of material in a deep concavity at the posterior end of the abdomen, 
suddenly jerks the body outward and shoots the pellets for a dis- 
tance of several feet from the trunk of the tree. 
Mr. Beeson also tells me that the large concavities in the 
front of the head and the lateral processes on the antennal scape 
of the female of Crvossotarsus bonvouloirt, and the processes on the 
mandibles of the female of Diapus quinquespinatus, are used for 
picking up the eggs and carrying them about in the galleries. 
Curculionidae. 
How a leaf-rolling weevil (Apoderus sp.) rolls up leaves and 
lays its eggs is recorded by Sage (J.B.N.H.S., VI, pp. 263-4). 
The habits and life-history of an aquatic weevil are described 
by Annandale and Paiva (J.A.S.B. [n.s.], II, pp. 197-200, 
figs. IA-F). 
Alcides collaris is noticed by Lefroy as a gall-producer 
(J: BINDS 2 oss D007). 
Notes on the habits and life-history of Cyrtotrachelus longipes 
are given by Witt (Indian Forester, XX XIX, pp. 265-272, pl. v). 
Concerning the development and habits of Aclees birmanus, a 
borer in Ficus elastica, see Dammerman (Med. Afd. v. Plantenz., 
No. 7, Batavia, 1913, pp. 29-30, I text-fig., pl. i, figs. 10a-b). 
STREPSIPTERA. 
Green records the occurrence, in the Jassid Thompsontella 
arcuata, of parasites belonging to this Order (Spolia Zeylanica, VII, 
Pp. 55). 
1 Mr. Beeson informs me that the species referred to in this discussion is 
Platypus biformis, Chap. 
