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(2) Images of the species Clinteria confinis, Hope, forwarded in 

 July 1893 by Mr. E. J. Buck. The insect was noticed as 

 attacking 1 peach aud apricot trees in Simla. 



Workers of the ant Dorylus longiconiis were forwarded in October 



1892 by Mr. E. E Green, with a suggestion that 

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this species might possibly be the one referred to 



on pa^e 42 of volume IT of these Notes as attacking- potatoes. 



Specimens of a small red ant, which appears to be identical with the 

 workers of the species Monomorhmi basale, Smith (Myrmeeidae), as deter- 

 mined in the Museum collection, were forwarded iu April 1893 by the 

 Deputy Commissioner, Betul, Central Provinces, with the iuformation 

 that they had multiplied to such an extent in the town of Badmir as to 

 have become a great nuisance to the people. 



The Curculionid referred to in volume II, page I '2 of these Notes, as 

 attacking young opium plants in the North-West Provinces, has been 

 identified through the kindness of Mons. J. Desbrochers des Loges as 

 belon^-ino* to the species Tanymecus indicus, Faust., MS. 



Iu March 1893 imagos of the Dermestid Anthrenus vorax, Water- 

 house which has previously been noticed as attacking skins in the 

 Museum, were forwarded by Mr. L. de Niceville, with the information 

 that they had proved destructive to some of the fittings in railway 

 carriages on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. 



Indeterminable chrysomelid larvae were forwarded in July 1892, 

 by Babu N. G. Mukharji, as attacking potato plants in Berhampore. 



The above figure represents the tiger beetle Cicindeia sexpunctata 

 Fabr., natural size. This insect is referred to in volume I, pnge 59, 

 volume II, page 148, and volume III, page 17, of these Notes. It 



