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perfect beetles, five or six pupse, and about a dozen larvce. 

 Another monochamous beetle attacks the Butea frondosa 

 and the wild willow, Salix tetrasperma, entering the 

 trunk and boring in all directions. A third species has 

 its pupse inclosed in solid cocoons made of a substance 

 resembling lime, with a shell fully one-sixteenth of an 

 inch in thickness, quite hard and firm. Its larvae and 

 pupae are both found in the woods of the Odina wodier 

 and Bombax heptaphyllum. E. Thompson. 



Mosquito blight. Have toon trees anything to do 

 with mosquito blight ? The manager of the Chenga Tea 

 Estate noted that, ' both in the hills and here, these trees 

 are always more or less blighted the whole year round, 

 and that the tea bushes under them and near by are 

 always the first to be attacked.' Wherever toon trees are 

 on the garden, he adds, the blight is worst, c so that I 

 would recommend every tree being cut down, as they are 

 perfectly useless and valueless all leaves and small 

 branches to be burned.' See Helopeltis ; Tea-bug. 



Moths known to science number 40,000 to 50,000. 

 See Coffee Trees. 



Muscidse. A family of dipterous insects, including 

 the common house-fly, the blue-bottle, the flesh-fly, the 

 green-bottle fly, the tse-tse, the phorides, cestrides. The 

 number of dipterous insects on the globe is estimated at 

 150,000 to 160,000. See Flies. 



Mycoidea parasitica, D. D. Cunningham. A cryptogam 

 plant observed at Calcutta on the leaves of the Camellia 

 Japonica as a destructive sloughing blight ; occurring also 

 on tea and rhododendron leaves, ferns, and crotons. 



Mygalidse. See Araneidse. 



Myrmeleon, or ant lion, are species of the Myr- 

 meleontidae, and the genera Myrmeleon and Palpares. 



