PilOCIEEMiXGS OF VHH THinD ENTUMOLOulCAL MEEIINU 177 



Piasad found it at Jeolikote on apple seedlings and on a loquat tree. 

 The adult beetle has a partiality for rose leaves and has been noted 

 specially on rose at Bangalore, whilst in Calcutta it also attacks leaves 

 of Lagirsiramia and Cdnnas. In Samoa the adult is a pest of cacao and 

 the larva feeds on roots of grasses, etc. At Pusa the larva was found 

 at roots of oats and the adult beetle reared out emerged on 1st May 

 191.5 ; a pupa was also found at Pusa underground in an indigo field ' 

 End from this the adult emerged on 4th September 1917. The Pusa 

 Collection also contains examples from Murshidabad, Buxar Duars, 

 .Sylhet, Tejpur (Assam), Ccimbatore and the Nilgiris. It is a very 

 widely distributed species. 



Adoretus caligmoms, Burm. 



r. I., Rutef. pp. 355-3.56 ; Entl. Note 19 ; Proc. Second Entl. 



Meeting, p. 264 ; Ann. Rept. Impl. Entoni. 1917-1918, p. 93, 



t. 11, ff. a-d (1918). 



This species has been reared at l^usa from larvae found at roots of 



. grasses, rice, sugarcane and Saccharum sponianeton, the adult beetles 



emerging at the end of April. We have it also from Surat (5th Mav 



1904), Bababudin Hills (March to April), Santikoppa (N. Coorg : 4th- 



10th May 1914), Jorhat (29th June 1907) and Tharrawaddy. 



Arrow also records it from Kangra Valley, Sikkim, Saxda (Bengal), 

 Belgaum, Bandra, Nilgiris (3,500 feet) and Rangoon. 



CETONI.'iD^. 



Jleterrorhina elegans, Fb. 

 Arrow, F. I. Ceton. pp. 93-94 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 182. 



This is a large metallic green or blue species which occurs on cJiolam 

 flower-heads in small numbers at Coimbatore, eating the pollen, but t 

 is not looked on as a pest. We also have it from Chapra and Arrow 

 also records it from Malda, Chota Nagpur, Mysore, Trichinopol}'. Nilgiris 

 and Ceylon. 



I teats the pollen but does not do appreciable damage as it does Mr. R£iEf.I-ii.:tEa 

 not occur in large numbers. Ayyar. 



Anthracophora crucijera, Oy\v.(=atromaciihia, Fb.) 

 Arrow, F. I. Ceton. pp. 110-111 ; Proc. Secoiid Entl. Meeting, p. 182. 



This species has been found at Coimbatore on cholatn and LanliU.r Mr. FJetcbcr. 

 .but is not looked or. as a pest. It is widely distributed and the Pusa 



