38 Indian Economic Entomology. [ Yol, Ut 



Throuo-h the Calcutta Agri- Horticultural Society was received in 



November 1890 a specimen of tbe Dynas. 

 CofEee Dynastinid. ,• -i i, n v ; . -j • 



tinid beetle XyLotrupes gi.deon, var. mnis- 



zechi (?), said to have caused some damage by eating the pulp of coffee 



fruit in Cachar. 



From Mr. H. Wrougbton, of Poona, have been received specimens of 

 ^. ., the Liparid moth, Artaxa limhaia, With, ihe 



Mango Liparid. , " . 



information that the caterpillars were injuri- 

 ous to young grafted mango plants. The insect had been reared by 

 Mr. Wroughton, who noted that the caterpillars were found on 2.3rd 

 September, the cocoons spun on 29th September, and the moths emerged 

 about 12th October. 



The Acridid grasshopper Thymaimus milinris, which may perhaps be 

 . .,., . . the /o(??<5/ that proved destructive to crops in 



Acrididse lu Assam. . ' . i i /i i tt 



Nowgong in 1879, is noted by beneral H, 

 Collett as fairly common in the neighi)ourhood of Shilloug, where it is 

 often to be seen feeding on bushes and grass, though it is thought not 

 to do any appreciable damage to the crops. 



Through the Calcutta Agri- Horticultural Society were received in 



June 1890 a series of mangoes from Mozaf- 



Mango maggots. u i.i i 777^ 



rerpore, where they are known as Lai kampee 



and are said to be attacked, very generally throughout the district, by 

 white maggots. These maggots are about the size of grains of rice, and 

 are found in such numbers in the fruit as to render it unfit for use. The 

 maggots are likely to be the larvae of some dipterous insect allied to the 

 species {Rivellia persica) described on page 192 of Vol. T of these Notes 

 as destructive to peaches in Chota Nagpore ; but for some unexplained 

 reason the mangoes actually received were found to be unaffected by 

 anything of the kind. The only insect discovered in them, after careful 

 search, was the solitary larva of a micro-lepidopterous insect which was 

 about three-sixteenths of an inch long by one thirty-second of an inch 

 thick. It had bored a hole in the side of the mango, but had not pene- 

 trated more than about a quarter of an inch' into the pulp. It may, 

 possibly, have been the caterpillar of the moth (Maruca nov. sp., Swinhoe) 

 which has been found boring into the stones of mangoes in Calcutta, 

 Its position shows that it was in all probability hatched from an egg 

 laid by the parent moth in the skin of the nearly ripe fruit. 



The following information lias been furnished by Mr. G. Rogers, of the 



Forest Department, in Darjiling. In April 



Notes from Darjiling forests. lun/^ 1,1 i • 1 i. • j ;^„„i 



'' ^ 1890 a blackish, hair-covered, processional 



caterpillar, about two inches in length, defo- 



