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India v Mvscnm Notes. 



[ Vol. III. 



(2) Aphelinns thece n. sp. (plate I, figs. 5 and 5a) bred Ly 



Mr. F. W. H. Miles from the tea scale insect Chionasju* 

 thete Mask ell. 



(3) Pteromalus oryzoz n. sp. (plate I, figs. 2 and 2#), believed 



to be parasitic on the rice weevil Calandra oryzce Linn. 



(4) Cotesia flavipes n. sp. (plate I, figs. 3 and 3a) bred in 



the Museum from caterpillars of the destructive sorghum 

 borer Diatrcea sp. received from Poona. 



Specimens of the Cerambycid beetle Stomatium barbatum, Fabr., were 



forwarded to the Museum in June 1891 by 

 Stromatium barbatum. ., ,-.. ? ,i w i o i i i\ i 



the Director or the rorest bchool, Dehra, 



with the informal ion that they bad been damaging wood specimens in 



the School Museum. A block of khair wood (Acacia Catechu) that, was 



forwarded with the beetles was found to have the whole of the sap wood 



riddled with tunnels made by the larva?. These tunnels were tightly 



packed with the powdered wood that had been eaten out and probably 



passed through the digestive organs of tbe grub. The hard heart wood 



was untouched. 



Aspldomorpha militaris. 



WW 



The Cassid Aspidomorpha militaris Fabr., lias been reared in the 



Museum upon convolvulus {Conrolvulacea) 

 leaves. Young larvae received on 7th July 

 became adult on 29th of the same month, by 2Uth September these imagos 



had laid a lanye 

 number of egg cap- 

 sules, which pro- 

 duced young larva?, 

 [n the rains in Cal- 

 cutta, therefore, this 

 insect takes little 

 over two months to 

 complete the cycle 

 of its existence. 

 The egg capsules 

 are large oblong 

 agglutinated mass- 

 es, sometimes more 

 f^MHtfj \ v { than half an inch in 



UHV^' |H k length. The larva? 



j ' I are the little spined. 



creatures shown in 

 the figure. They shed their skins at intervals, the cast skins remaining 



