rROCEEDlNXS OF THE THIED ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING HID 



Coslostenia scabrator, Fb. 



South Ind. Ins., pp. 325-326, f. 181 ; Stebbing, Ind. Forest 

 Ins. GoL, pp. 358-362, t. 25 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 

 pp. 22, 121, 248, 254, 265, 275 [scabrator and spinator]. 



We have this from Peshawar, Bhangaon Forest (Berar), Poona, 

 Charodi (Bombay), Belgaum, the Shevaroy Hills and Shembaganur 

 (Madura). At Peshawar the adult was found gnawing the bark of a 

 branch of Tamarix indica on 21st October 1914 ; in the Bhangaon Forest 

 it was reported as " doing very serious damage to sowings of babul, the 

 larva boring into the stem and the adult eating the bark, often completely 

 ringmg the shoot " (letter from Co"-servator of Forests, Berar Circle, 

 14th September 1910) ; at Poona, the adult was found on Zizyphus, 

 1st June 1910 ; and at Charodi " on cotton." 



Stebbing states that it attacks Acacia arabica and Shorea robusta 

 in Berar, Casuarina equisetifoUa in Oudh, and that it occurs also at 

 " Kandiduppa, Madras." 



Watt and Mann include it as a pest of tea in Assam, but I have never Mr. Andrews, 

 known it on tea. 



Aristobia approximator, Thoms. 



We have this from Nongpoh (Khasi Hills), and from Paungde, Taung- Mr. Hetcher. 

 gyi and Lashio in Burma. At Taunggyi the larva was found by 

 K. D. Shroff boring the stems and branches of cheiTamoya. 



It girdles forest trees. Mr. Beeson. 



Epepeotes uncinatus, Gahan. 

 Adult beetles were found at Shillong in July 1918 resting on the Mr. Fletcher. 

 twigs of Ficus carica and the larva probably bores into this tree as this 

 beetle belongs to a group which is usually attached to species of Ficus 

 and a young longicorn larva was found boring in the stem of one of 

 these trees. 



Monohammus nivosus, Wh. 

 Stebbing, Ins. For. Ins. Col., pp. 357-358, f. 243. 

 Stebbing gives its distribution as the Sub-Himalayan tract from 

 Ganges to Nepal, Central and South India ; Burma ; Ceylon. 

 The larva bores in stems of Calotropis giganteci. 



We have specimens fi-om Pusa, bred fi'om larvae in Calotropis, and ■ 

 from Poona labelled " Woodfordia, 12th June 1910." It is apparently 

 a very minor pest of Calotropis. 



