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This is another species about whose parasites we know nothing but Mr. Fletcher, 

 would hke to have some information. It has been introduced into the 

 West Indies and is doing a lot of damage there and I have been appealed 

 to for parasites to help them ; but we do not know of any parasites in 

 India. 



I have bred a large number and found an absolute absence of para- ^^ Beeson. 

 sites. 



They lay a very large number of eggs. In the Insectary more than Mr. Ghosh. 

 200 eggs have been laid. The female goes on laying eggs for fourteen 

 days. 



Then what keeps it in check '. Mr. Fle'.cher. 



Probably desiccation of the wood as a result of the egglaying and Mr. Beeson. 

 working of the grubs is an important check. 



What about those larvae that are boring in living wood ; Mr. Fletcher. 



There is no check on those. Mr. Beeson. 



Do wood-peckers help at all to check them ? Mr. Fletcher. 



The larvae have enormous vitality. Young larvae are probably Mr. Beeson. 

 killed off by cannibaUsm. 



We have not noticed any cannibaUsm. Mr Ghosh. 



Apriona gerinari, Hope. 



Stebbing, Ind. For. Ins. Col., pp. 371, 372, 374, f. 249 ; Proc. 

 Second Entl. Meeting, p. 255. 

 This species has been recorded from Shahdera (near Lahore), the Mr. Fletcher, 

 larva boring into mulberry, into the main trunk, and doing considerable 

 damage. 



We have no specimens of this at Pusa. 



It is a shoot-girdler of mulberry and Ficiis. Mr. Beeson 



Apriona cinerea, Chev. 



Stebbing, For. Ins. Col., p. 374 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 255. 



Stebbing records this from Dehra Dun, the adult beetles stripping Mr. Fletcher, 

 off the bark off the leading shoots and young twigs of Morus indica. 



The Pusa collection contains specimens, identified as A. cinerea with 

 some doubt, from Jammu, larva boring mulberry stem ; Kumaon Hills, 

 larva boring fig tree ; anjl Jeohkote (IE. 306 ; 29. \1I, 1-2). 



? Apriona sp. 

 We have this from Chandinagar (Sylhet), where the larva was found 

 boring stems of jak ; the adult emerged at Pusa, 6th August 1918. 



