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Indian Museum Nofes. 



[ Vol. III. 



to shelter themselves, picking- off and burning the affected shoots, and 

 white-washing the trunks, mightalsobe of some use, butasyet too little 

 is known about the insect to warrant any very definite suggestions for 

 dealing with it. The figures show the winged inject, with much erlarged 

 diagrams of the wings, head and one of the legs, also the end of a mango 

 twig with aborted shoots. The size of the insect is indicated by the 

 bair line. 



In November 1891 some young linseed (Linum itsitatissimum) plants 

 Linseed caterpillars in were forwarded to the Museum by the Snper- 

 Kagpur> intendent of the Government Farm, Nagpur, 



with the information that they had been dying off in an unaccountable 

 manner. A similar blight had been noticed the preceding year, and in 

 some fields had very materially reduced the outturn of the crop. A careful 

 examination of the plants that were forwarded disclosed a number of 

 minute caterpillars which were located in the young shoots at the top of the 

 plants. They were far too immature for precise identification, and all that 

 could be made out was that they were much like very young larvae of the 

 Noctues moth Hrliothis armigera, which is a very generally distributed 

 pest in India. There is some doubt as to whether these caterpillars are 

 sufficient to account for the dying off of the plants. The insect could no 

 doubt l»e easily destroyed by spraying the plants with almost any 

 insectcide, though this is a form of treatment which has not yet been 

 much adopted in India. 



From the Secretary to the Agri.- Horticultural Society of India wore 



_ . , n ,., received (6th Julv 1891) specimens in differ- 



ramaiind Brucnid. v j t r 



ent stages of development of a Bruchid which 

 attacks th' j seed of the Tamarind tree [Tamarindu* in die a) in Calcutta. 



The insect was submitted to 

 Mons. A. Fauvel, who has 

 kindly examined it and reports 

 that it belongs tc the species 

 Caryoborns (Bruchus) gonagra. 1 

 Fabr. M. Fauvel calls atten- 

 tion to a paper by H. L. Elditt, 

 entitled " Die metnmorphose 

 des Caryoborus (Bruchus) 

 gonagra ¥." Gratulationschr. 

 der bhys. CEk. Gesellsch. H. 

 Kathke, Kouigsberg, 1860, 

 dealing with this insect. This 

 paper is not to be found in 



'This is ptoW.lv the insert referred to bv Or H. CUghorn (Journ. Agfi-Hort. Soc 

 nclia, Vol. XIV, p. 2i)i, 1867), as infecting tamarind sjed. 



