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Miofristis bimactdata, Jac. 



Jacoby, F. I. Chrysom., pp. 99-100, fig. 21. 



The adult beetles have been found at Pusa in small numbers eating 



flowers of nee on 8th October 1917, and have also been found on cotton 



leaf and on grass. We have it also from Chapra. It is probably not 



common enough to do any real damage. 



Diafromwfha melanopDs, Lac. 

 Jacoby, F. I. Chrysom., pp. 168-169, fig. 64. 

 In In<nan Mn.eum Notes, I, ii, p. 106 (1889) this species is recorded 

 as received in 1885 from Sibsagar from S. E. Peal who noticed it as 

 "tI!"^^ 'nT °^ *«^-«^^°°^« ^o tJ^at ttey wither and droop." 

 ,^^u i^°"'*=*'°" '^^^t^i"^ specimens from the Khasis (1000-3000) 

 and Sbllong, Buxar Duars, Maymyo, Lebong, Palamau, Chapra. MunsW^ 

 ganj and Pusa. At Pusa the adult has been taken on B^mha.r n,a!a- 

 baricum, but we do not know it as a pest here 



oveJ'thtTeT i-J'T' """"'■ r' r ' ^''^ '^P°^*^"^ 1^^«* °^ tea all Mr. i^ndrews. 

 hli? 1 If' ''P'"'""^ "^°"§ *^' '^^'' °f j"^gles. It bites 



half-way through the stem which droops .and withers. Every planter 

 knows It and It IS destroyed by hand-picking 



of lu tr"^ *^'VT'' '" "Pf ^^^tly *^^"^d the Orange Beetle on acco^.nt Mr. Fleicher. 

 of it^ colour and it is so referred to in Watt and Mann's " Pests and 

 Bhghts the Tea Plant." As you know, before the appointment of 



tZclZlr ^r"T' ^^*°-«'°gi«t« - I-'iia, information about 

 insect pests, along with various other matters, was dealt with under a 

 scissors-and-paste method in the ofiice of the Reporter on Economic 

 Products and these files on insect pests were finally transferred to PuJ 

 On looking up the file on this insect I find that the name " Orange Beetle •• 

 proved too much for the Office Staff of the Reporter on Econonuc Pro- 



1 \d;7' P T 7r?' '^'* '^' ^'''^' ""'^ solemnly filed under the 

 Heading Pests of Citrus trees." 



"^T^J'J" ^- ^'^^y^°^' PP- 252-253, fig. 97: Proc. Second 

 iintl. Meeting, p. 264. 



CryplocepMus dodecaspilus, Suff 



■ I. Chrysom., pp. 252-253, fig. 

 seting, p. 264. 



.t III Tu ^"''^7r '°'""^ •" "'•" ™'>™ ''"'"Si'g rose-leaves 

 .lit"";,;.'"' '""^ "'^- ™' •'- '-' ■'"- »"3'Wo, 



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