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Mr. Lefroy's caution may therefore seem uncalled for. But he says he 

 has reared the butterfly lumself at Pusa, It seems possible therefore that 

 the resemblance of the pupse he obtained and which he could not fail to 

 have studied was defective or remote. Those that I have observed here, do 

 not all show the resemblance to an equal degree. The black in the eyes is 

 not always conspicuous and the dark patch which stands for the nostrils 

 does not often show up. Similar deviations are observed in the butterflies 

 also. In the male the white spot on the forewings is seldom quadrilateral 

 and the more diffuse white in the wings of the female is certainly not so 

 diffuse as figured in Lefroy's book. These variations are in specimens reared 

 from (be it noted) the egg mosses of a species of Pulvinaria on sandal. 

 Lefroy's were from apparently the adults of Phenacoccus iceryoides and the 

 species of mealy bug from which Mr. Aitken obtained his specimens is not 

 known. It is possible that specimens which vary so much even when 

 reared from the same host are likely to vary a great deal more when they 

 are from different hosts. In any case that some pupee are so marked as to 

 recall the face of an ape is I believe established by the photographs and I 

 am glad to be able to record that so far as Mr. Aitken's note on Spalgis 

 epius is concerned there has been no lapse in the usual accuracy and truth 

 of his observations. 



Bangalobb, 

 29i/« March 1916. 



K. KUNHI KUNNAN, m.a., 

 Senior Assistant Entomologist. 



No. XXX.- 



-A LONGICORN BEETLE {CERAMBYCID) FEEDING 

 ON ORANGE TREES. 



This longicorn beetle, scientifically known as Stromatium barbatum, Fabr., 

 is recorded to have been found widely throughout India, in as divergent 

 localities as Assam, North- West India, Central Provinces, Ceylon, Burma, 

 Andamans, and outside of India, in Mauritius, Bourbon, Madagascar, etc. 

 This is known to infest various forest trees among which Teak, Acacia 

 catechu, Dendrocalamus strictus and Mango are important. This beetle was 

 reported in 1901 from RaipiTr Range as infesting bamboos and considerable 

 damage was attributed to it. Mr. Lefroy found this insect infesting mango 

 trees at Pusa. In the Ceatral Provinces in addition to bamboos it is found 

 to be a very common insect pest of the orange, a fact which has not been 



