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numbers, it will prove a very efficient check. Each larva 

 consumes, on an average, eight bugs a day, and seeing that 

 the life of the larvse is about twenty days and that the 

 adults also feed on the bugs, the total number accounted for 

 by a colony of these would be considerable. Although the 



Text-Fig UEE 13. 



Text-Ftguee 14. 



Text- Figure 15. 



Text-Figur]^ 13 TO 15. —Various stages of the lady-bird beetle, Chilocorus nigritus. 

 13. Larva. 14. P^pa in skin of last larval in star. 15. Adult beetle. 



beetle has not been found in the coffee districts of Mysore, 

 in the Shevaroys it is reported to be a very efficient check 

 during the colder months. Attempts to introduce this 

 species into the coffee districts of Mysore will be made. 

 A minute tick about the size of the young of green 



