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ting coffee bushes. {I. M. N. Ill, iii, p. 117 (1892)). Stebbing (Ind. 

 For. Ins. p. 75, f. 40) also refers to the above record and records it from 

 Trevandrum also. 



Melaserica barber i, Shp. 

 This is one of the small cockchafers occurring at Ootacamund in 

 numbers in April. The beetles occur on Cinchona there in small numbers. 



Brahmina coriocea, Hope. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, pp. 234, 245, 247, 248. 

 This species has been sent in to us from Chavai, Kulu District, where 

 it was defoliating apple and pear trees by night in August 1915 ; from 

 JeoUkote, where it was attacking vine and fig leaves by night in June 

 1910 and vine, apple, pear and plum in July 1912 ; we also have a speci- 

 men taken on pear at Jeolikote on 3rd May 1915. This species occurs 

 at Pusa also, and has been found attracted to the Andres-Maire traps 

 there. 



Afogonia proxima, Waterh. 

 We have this from Calcutta, Chapra and Pusa. At Pusa the adults 

 are found in very large numbers on Fictis religiosa leaves in July, eating 

 the leaves in the evening. A pupa and many adults have also been 

 found at Pusa amongst roots of Saccharum spontaneum. It is not defi- 

 nitely known to be a pest but probably feeds on cane roots during the 

 larval stage. 



Afogonia ferruginea, Fb. 



Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 131. 



We have this from Pusa, and from Hopin and Tatkon in Upper 



Burma. It is very abundant in the adult stage at Pusa in June and 



Jidy, resting in the evening on leaves of Bombax and Fictis spp., which 



they damage considerably. 



Holotrichia conferta, Shp. 

 Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 29. 

 We have this from Pykara and Ootacamund in the Nilgiris, from 

 Coorg and Santikoppa (N. Coorg). Said to damage coffee roots in the 

 larval state. The adult beetles appear during the first half of April. 



