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The Ursus Malayanus, Sciurus palmarum or palm 

 squirrel, the common rat, and the palm martin, Para- 

 doxurus typus, are all accused of destroying the cocoa- 

 nut. 



Deer will not enter fields when the safflower has been 

 sown intermixed with the cereals or millets. 



Dogs refuse to sleep on rugs beneath which mint has 

 been laid. Commissioners' Report, 1871. See Helminths. 



Mango Worm. The Indian Agriculturist of the 19th 

 December 1885 quotes the Eeis and Eayyot native 

 newspaper as stating that ' the fly is so tenacious of life 

 that it thrives within the heart of the fruit. You cut a 

 fruit apparently sound, without a spot on the surface, 

 when, lo ! the fly issues out of the interior and buzzes 

 about you. These insects have degraded the East Bengal 

 mango for at least more than half a century, and yet no 

 notice has been taken of the matter.' The scientific name 

 of this insect is a desideratum. 



Measle. See Helminths. 



Melolonthidae. In the tea plantations of the Dehra 

 Doon, a small beetle occurred, supposed to be one of 

 this family. It lay two or three inches in the ground 

 during the day. It was dug up in bushels and destroyed. 



Melolontha vulgaris is the common cockchafer of 

 Europe. M. Eeiset estimated that, in 186566, agricul- 

 tural produce to the value of more than a million sterling 

 was destroyed in the Department of Seine Infe*rieure. There 

 are many species belonging to the Melolonthideous or 

 Cetonideous genera in Ceylon. Under the name of white 

 grub were included the larvae of various Melolonthidae, the 

 cockchafers of Ceylon, which do much harm to coffee plan- 

 tations, young and old, by eating the roots of the trees. 

 Mr. J. L. Gordon, of Eambodde, considered the white grub 



