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in testing this treatment. Mr. W. Jackson and others to whom I have applied say 

 that tliey would have no time to attend to the work, and also that they ai'e not now 

 so much troubled with the pest. Mr. Shelley seems to have confined his experiments 

 to young plants in nurseries." — {E. E. Green.) 



"At the request of Mr. E. E. Green I am returning you a force pump which you. 

 had lent him for the purpose of spraying bug-infested coffee, and which he at my 

 request sent on to me to try some experiments in the same way. I regret to say 

 that the emulsion of kerosine oil was not satisfactory, and the insect seemed to get on 

 the trees almost at once after the application. Pure kerosine seems to have some 

 influence in destroying the bug, but it at the same time rots the skin of the young coffee 

 berries, so that it cannot be used while the crop is on the trees, which in some districts 

 here is practically all the year round. I fear it is useless trying to contend with this 

 pest on a large scale and that we have to look forward to the complete extinction of 

 coffee in this island ere long." — (J". G. Crow.) 



"It has been an unfavourable season for trying the pump, as we have had hardly 

 any bug to speak of; and what we have had has been on isolated trees here and there ; 

 so I am quite unable to say anything as to cost. But I have been much pleased at the 

 result of the emulsion applied with the pump, and all I can say is that under ordinary 

 circumstances, such as not too steep a lay of land, and with water handy, I believe it 

 would be quite easy to keep the bug in check." — {F. H. Shelley) 



In May 1890 was received from the Department of Laud Records 



„, , „ , , and Agriculture in Madras a packet of wee- 



Stored Sorghum pests. -n i i i 



villed cbolum seed {Sorghum vulgare), in- 



fested by numerous specimens of Calandra orijzce (wheat and rice 



weevil), also of the common Ptinid ( ? Bhizoperilia pusiUa, Fabr.) ^ a sino-le 



specimen of Silvanus surinamensis being also found. The injury to the 



seed appeared to be chiefly due to the Calandra and Ftinid^ which are 



the two insects that do most of the injury to stored wheat in India 



Silvanus siirinaviensis being also a common granary pest which is often 



found in wheat. As far therefore as can be judged from this sample, it 



seems that stoied sorghum seed and stored wheat in India have common 



enemies, and that any measures found useful in protecting the one are 



likely to be efRcacious with the other. 



From the Superintendent of the Government Museum, Madras, have 



„, ,, , , , n.^Hc, been received specimens of six species of Acri- 

 The Madras locust of 1878. ^ 



didse said to have been the locusts which 

 proved destructive in the Madras Presidency in 1878. The specimens 

 comprised the species Acridinm (Rvughiosiim, Buvm., represented by about 

 half a dozen individuals, and Acridinm inelanocorne, Serv. var., Mecopoda, 

 sp., Tnjxalis turrtta, Linn., Euprepoc7iemis, sp., and Fachyfylus cineras- 

 ccns (?), Linn., each represented by one, or at most two individuals, the 

 single specimen of Fachytylus cinerascens (?) being in such a poor state 

 of preservation that its specific identification was somewhat doubtful. 



