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PROCEEDIK-GS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Megachile disjuncta, Fabr. 

 F, I., Hym. I., 480. 



Occurs througlioufc India and Burma. We liave it from Pu.sa, 

 Chapra, Jagi Road (Assam), Belgaum and Lower Burma. 



This is also a leaf-cutting bee, and removes leaves from tur and rose 

 plants, in the same way as M. anthracina. 



VESPIDiE. 



Vespa basalts, Smith. 

 F. I., Hym. I., 403-404. 

 Widely distributed in India, Burma and Ceylon. 

 We have had this species sent in to us from Dehra Dun, where this- 

 hornet was noticed removing the bark of young Eucalyptus stuartiana 

 trees-growing in the Cantonment of Dehra Dun. The bark was removW 

 clean to the wood, the thickness of the bark being \ to J inch and tne- 

 width of the eaten part about the same. 



Do they damage the trees very high above the ground ? 

 I cannot say. The specimens were sent in to us and we have only 

 received this one report about this insect. 



At Dehra Dun I have noticed ants removing the bark from these- 

 trees. 



Possibly the trees were dead. It seems rather unUkely that these- 

 hornets should strip living bark from Eucalyptus trees. I included this- 

 insect in the list because it was sent in to us as doing damage and possibly 

 someone else might be able to corroborate damage to living trees by- 

 hornets. 



Chalcidid^. 

 (Unidentified Eurytomine.) 



This is the insect which damages apricots at Haripur Hazara in th& 

 North- West Frontier Province, by ovipositing in the young fruit. The- 

 grub bores into the kernel inside the stone, the result being that the 

 fruit shrivels and falls off the tree before it is fully developed. The larva 

 lives inside the fallen stone until the next spring, when it pupates and 

 emerges as an adult. It is probable that in some cases it may lie over 

 for more than one year. 



Collection and destruction of the fallen fiuits and stones is the obvious, 

 remedy for control. 



