INSECT INTRUDERS. 



in this stage, feeding all the time upon 

 roots and young seedlings in a manner 

 similar to the cockchafer grubs. The 

 beetle lays its eggs usually in refuse 

 or dying or rotten palm trees and the 

 grubs hatch out in these positions. 



It is a common sight to see a heap of 

 decaying refuse in the corner of a garden 

 in this country. The malis like to make 

 their soil in this manner. If the heap 

 is kept in a deep pit, there may possibly 

 be little to be said against it. If, how- 

 ever, it is stacked in some corner above 

 ground, it is certain that the rhinoceros 

 grubs will spread from it to the seedling 

 beds and commit irreparable damage. 

 This I have often seen in Calcutta 

 gardens and down in parts of the East 

 Coast of Madras as well. 



This rhinoceros beetle is, as I have 

 said, a pest of palms in the country, as 

 the beetle eats down through the heart 

 of the crown of the palm, cutting large 

 holes through the young folded leaves 



