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Through the Madras Museum were received in January 1890 speci- 

 mens of (1) the Buprestid beetle, Psilnptera 

 fastuosajYsibx-iQmSjSiwdL (2) heterocercus larvae, 

 probably belonging to the family Hepiali.iicey both said to injure the 

 Government teak plantations in ISilambur, Malabar, 



With regard to the species described on page 80 of Vol. I of 

 these Notes, by Professor Kohl, as Chalcis 

 Clalci, cr^cuIcB. criculcB, Mr. W. P. Kirby, of the British 



Museum, suggests that the species may, perhaps, be identical with the 

 Chalcis responsata described by Walker in Tr. E. Soc, Lond. (3) I, 

 page 355 (1862), from North India. He notices that this spe- 

 cies has hind tibiae "white, with the inside of the curve black." An 

 examination of the type specimens of Chalcis circnla in the collection of 

 the Indian Museum shows that the hind tibiae are yellow, with a very 

 thin black line along the inside of the curve. This seems to point to 

 the probable correctness of Mr. Kiiby^s supposition, white colour on the 

 tibiae being very likely to show as yellow in old specimens. 



Some larvae of a Scarabseid beetle, probably one of the Cetonini, were 



received in December 1890 from Mr. F. J. 

 A Casuarina pest. -tt-ht-i- p t^ • • i i • n 



V. Mmchin, or Lranjam, with the mrormation 



that they cut the branches, and even the stems of young Casuarina trees 



across diagonally, as one would cut a stick with a knife. The insect 



cannot be precisely determined without an examination of the imago ; 



and the observation would seem to require explanation. 



In July 1887 were received specimens in various stages of develop- 

 jEpilachna vigintioctopunc- ment of the Coccinellid beetle, Epilachna 

 tO'tC'' viffiniiocf opunctaf a, Fahv.vav.yivom Hurdwan, 



where it was said to feed upon the brinjal plant, whole fields in 

 Burdwan being sometimes destroyed by it. It was thought at the time 

 that some mistake had probably arisen in this observation, the Coccinelli- 

 dae generally being carnivorous, but observations since made in Dehra 

 Dun, North-Western Provinces, where the imago was found feeding on a 

 cucurbitaceous plant, point to this species being an exception to the 

 general rule. 



In January 1890 the Deputy Commissioner of Umballa forwarded, 

 ,^ , ,, through the Director of Land Records and 



Umballa pests. . . i i n n 



Agriculture, Punjab, the rollowing insects : — 



(1) immature larvae of a Bonibyces moth, said to attack rapeseed j 



(2) coleopterous larvae said to attack sugarcane ; the specimens being 



