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52. Caryohorus gonagra Fabr. — A small brown beetle about tbe size 

 of a pea. Its larvte, whicli are little white legless grubs, do some damaije 

 to the tamarind [Tamariud as indica) in Caleutt;!^ by tunneling into the 

 seed. 



53. Bruchus sji. — Said to damage stored poppy [Papaver somnifcrim) 

 seed (Scott), 



CeramhycidcR = Lovgicornes. 



54. Xylotrechus quadrupks Chevr. — T/^t? coffee — horer of Southern 

 Iiiilia and the white or Indian horer of Ceylon coffee planters. This 

 is a slender beetle about three quarters of an inch in length; it proved 

 exceedingly destructive to oofiee [Coffea arabica) in Souihern India 

 abuut the year 1867. As in the case of other Cerambycidse the larva is a 

 white fleshy legless grub, with powerful jaws and hardened cuticle suitable 

 tor its life in the wood of the coffee stem. The damage is due to the 

 holes which the grubs bore into the stems of the coffee bushes. 



55. Coelosterna scabrata Fabr. — The sal girder. Reported as dam- 

 aging sal [Shorea robusla) trees in Oudh. A large thick-set beetle with 

 long antenute. It damages the tree by ringing the shoots in order to 

 reuder them suitable for the reception of its eggs. 



56. Plocederusohesus Gahan. ( = P. ^J«r/e«;!m Cotes). Reported as 

 tunneling into sal [Shorea robusta), jingham [Odina IVodier), and into 

 dhak [Bulea f rondos^) . It is a brown beetle, about an inch and a half 

 in length, with long antennce. When full grown, its larva shelters 

 itself in a curious egg-like case which is to be found in the burrow in the 

 timber. 



57. Neocerambi/x kolosericens Fabr. (= Cerambyx vatica Thompson). 

 — Reported as attacking sal [S/iorea robusta) and saj [Terminalia 

 tomenlosa) in the North-West Provinces, also teak [Tectona grandis) 

 in Kulsi, Assiim. It is a large beetle, covered with golden pubescence. 



58. Stromiitium barbatum Fabr. — Noticed as attacking the sapwood 

 of dry khair [Acacia Catechu) wood in the Dehra Forest School Museum, 

 also packing-cases made of deal(vood [Finns sjj.) in Calcutta, and grow- 

 ing teak trees [Tectona grandis) in the Kulsi plantation. 



59. Batocera rubus Short. = Curuminga of the Cinghalese. — A large 

 beetle said to tunnel into cocoanut [Cocos nucifera) trees (Short). 



60. Batocera sp. Said to bore into the wood of the wild willow tree 

 [Salix ietraspermn) (Thompson). 



61. Monohamus soongna'Uhomi^son [= Batocera sp.). — Said to attack 

 a number of trees, including the scemul [Botnbax malabaric urn) , the soangna 

 [Moriiiga pterygosperma), and the roougra [Erythriua suberosa), much 

 injury being often done by it (Thompson). 



