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of a caterpillar attack, since the latter's bite when it goes through the leaf is 

 always a clean cut : a frayed edge is never left. So marked is this jagged 

 appearance of the leaves that it caught my eye and told me of the presence 

 of the beetle as I was riding along a road in Damoh bordered with teak-trees 

 before I had been into a forest in that district. 



Neither the eggs nor the larvae of this pest have yet been found. 



This weevil was plentiful in 1901 at the lower elevations in the Melghat 



teak forests lying between Ellichpur and Chikalda ; 



Relations to the i n the Damoh Division between Damoh and Singram- 



pur ; between the latter place and Jubbulpore ; and 



between Jubbulpore and Luckneedown on the Jubbulpore-Nagpur road. 



While the insect undoubtedly does a certain amount of defoliation on 

 the teak in years when it is plentiful, attacking the leaves of both young and 

 old trees, present observation does not show it to be anything like as bad a 

 pest as its three lepidopterous companions, and it appears doubtful whether 

 it would ever be capable of entirely denuding a teak forest of its leaves. It 

 must, however, be considered an enemy of the tree, and it is important 

 that the rest of its life history should be worked out, especially the point 

 as to where its larva lives and on what it feeds. 



In nurseries, spraying young plants with one of the spraying solutions 

 would have the effect of killing off the beetle. This 

 should be done as soon as the pest makes its appear- 

 ance, and repeated at intervals through July and 



August. The earlier the beetles are attacked, the less chance is there of 



their reaching the pairing stage and laying eggs. 



AMBLYRRHINUS. 

 Amblyrrhinus subrecticollis, Marshall, sp. nov. 



REFERENCE. Marshall, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist. Aug. p. 187) 1913. 



Habitat. Dehra Dun, Siwaliks. 



Tree Attacked. Mallotus philippitu'nsis. Karwapani, Dehra Dun (A. M. 

 Littlewood). 



Beetle. Black, with dense grey scaling ; the prothorax with a 

 brown stripe on each side and a narrow brown central line ; elytra 



variegated with brown dorsally, and with a 

 Description. more distinct angulated brown marking 



behind the middle, followed by a broad, 



pale, oblique band. Head small, vertex densely pubescent, rostrum 

 about as broad as long, almost parallel-sided and directed downwards, 

 the dorsal area without any distinct anterior impression ; scrobes 

 short, oblique, black; the antennae inseited near upper end; the 

 scape slightly longer than rest of antennae, thickest at upper end, 

 club small. Prothorax about as long as wide, broadest behind, sides ],- I(; 277. 



rounded, anterior margin straight; the upper surface with the Inil'lvrrhiimx snbrecti- 

 sculpturing hidden by the scaling, and set with very short, sub-erect colUs, Mshl., sp. nov. 

 setae. Scutellum small. Elytra constricted behind humeral angles, Dehra Dun. 



