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numbers, eating the young leaves and doing considerable damage. 

 We also have it from the Punjab (oil bajra), Garh.wal, Dehra Dun, Nasik, 

 the Shevaroy Hills and Maymyo. Lefroy has also reported it as injurious 

 to juar and kutki [Panicvm miliare ; a small millet], whose flowers it 

 damages (Arrow). 



I have found it on flowers of thatching grass. 



In the Bengal Duars the adults were eating the leaves of young 

 tea-bushes and doing considerable damage. This tea was planted ou 

 new land which had just been cleared of jungle. 



Eficmnetis sqwtlida, Linn. 

 Arrow. F. I. Ceton. p. 174, f. 40 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 268. 



This has been sent in to us from Quetta, the adult beetles occurring 

 on hyacinth, crocus, violet, and narcissus and destroying [the flowers ?] 

 in April 1910. It also occurs in W. Asia, Europe, N. Africa, where it 

 injures peach blossoms by destroying the stamens and in Greece, Corsica, 

 Algeria and other vine-growing countries damages buds of growing 

 vines. 



The larva is said to bred in manure (Arrow)'. 



Ageslrala michalcea, Linn. 

 Arrow, F. I. Ceton pp. 192-194, f. 2. 



Occurs in Ceylon, Travancore, Bombay, Sylhet, Tenasserim, Anda- 

 mans, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, China, etc. 



The larva bores into Pandamis, the woody stem being tunnelled 

 tlirough just below the point of origin of the branches, causing them 

 to die off. At Singapore it is very destructive to ornamental Pandamis 

 growing in tubs. The larva is preyed on by Scolia nibiginosa, Fb. (Arrow). 

 This has not yet been noted as a pest in India but is likely to be found 

 damaging ornamental Pandanus. 



Spilophorus crelosus, Hope. 

 Arrow, F. I. Ceton, pp. 201-202, f. 45. 

 We have specimens from Coimbatore, where it was found on cvnibu 

 on 21st September 1909 and on Cordia siibcordata , from Chapra, and from 

 Malegaum in Bombay where the adult beetle was found in a nest of 

 Cremastogasler sp. Also known from Malda, Berhampore, and Western 

 Province of Ce^^lon (Arrow). 



