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Mysore at an elevation of 4,000 feet. It has latterly been noted on the- 

 Palnis also. Numbers of the honey-bee are carried off by this wasp 

 and stored in nests made in hard banks at the sides of hill roads. There 

 is no doubt that hives of honey-bees are depopulated in this way by 

 this insect. Interesting accounts of how species of these wasps hunt bees 

 and store them, will be found in Fabre's interesting works. 



Xylocopa tenuiscapa, Westw. In buildings where the roofing materials 

 are of bamboo or weak and unseasoned wood this carpenter-bee causes 

 considerable damage. The rafters and beams are riddled with holes 

 inside which the insect breeds. Swarms of these insects are found 

 hovering about the building all day long with their characteristic 

 disturbing noise. I have collected the Meloid beetle Cissites debyi in 

 the galleries made by this bee. This latter insect is believed to be 

 predaceous on the larvse of the carpenter-bee. 



Among other Hymenoptera already recorded as injurious, mention 

 may be made of two well-known ants — (Ecophylla smaragdina and Catnpo- 

 notus compressus. The former was recently found bad on the crowns of 

 coconut trees in South Kanara. It is found very hard to get rid of the 

 nests on these trees ; tree-climbers often suffer very much. The latter 

 is chiefly found guilty of spreading colonies of scale-insects from tree to 

 tree ; this has been noted especially in the case of two Coccids on the 

 Coimbatore farm, viz., Pulvinaria maxima, Gr., and Anomalococcus 

 indicus, Gr. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Holotrichia sp. (Plate 9, fig. b.)* This is a fairly big cockchafer beetle,, 

 chocolate-brown in colour. Mr. Arrow of the British Museum, to 

 whom it was sent, says that the species is new to the Museum. 

 Thousands of these emerge from the soil at the hill-sides soon after 

 the first summer rains on the Nilgiris. The grubs are generally 

 found active from September to November. In certain years these 

 do considerable damage to young cinchona seedhngs. Thousands of 

 the adults may be caught at lights in May — June. Another known 

 species, H. repetita, is occasionally found with this species, but not in 

 such numbers, on the Nilgiris. 



Fopillia chlorion, Newm. (Plate 9, fig. a.) This small pretty green 

 insect is found in company with the big cockchafer noted above, 

 and the grubs too have the same habits, but are smaller in size. 

 Cockchafer grubs of sorts have now and then been observed also under 

 cholam plants and other garden shrubs on the Coimbatore farm. 



* Since described in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July 1919, p. 24, by Mr. Arrow as 

 Bhizotrogus rujus. 



