38 hidia?i Ecotioinio Entomology. [ YqL II. 



Through the Calcutta Agri- Horticultural Society was received in 



_ ,. ., November 1890 a specimeu of the Dynas. 



Coffee Dynastiiud. x--ii.i -v i ■ -, ■ 



tinicl beetle Xyiotrupes gideon, var. mnis- 



zechi (?), said to have caused some damage by eating the pulp of coffee 



fruit in Cachar. 



From Mr. R, Wroughton, of Poona, have been received specimens of 

 -, T- -J the Liparid moth, Artaxa Umbata, \i\i\x \^q 



Mango Liparid. , * _ ' ... 



information that the caterpillars were injuri- 

 ous to young grafted mango plants. The insect had been reared by 

 Mr. Wroughton, who noted that the caterpillars were found on- 23rd 

 September, the cocoons spun on 29th September, and the moths emerged 

 about 12th October. 



The Acridid grasshopper Vhymatceus viiliaris, which may perhaps be 



. .,.,.. the /oc«5/f that proved destructive to crops in 



Aciuchaaj m Assam. -kt • -^ i 



Nowgong in 1879, is noted by (jeneral H. 



Collett as fairly common in the neighbourhood of Shilloug, where it is 



often to be seen feeding on bushes and grass, though it is thought not 



to do any appreciable damage to the crops. 



Through the Calcutta Agri- Horticultural Society were received in 



June 1890 a series of mangoes from Mozaf- 



Mango maggots. u ^i i 777^ 



lerpore, where they are known as Lai kampee 



and are said to be attacked, very generally throughout the district, by 

 white maggots. These maggots are about the size of grains of rice, and 

 are found in such numbers in the fruit as to render it unfit for use. The 

 maggots are likely to be the larvse of some dipterous insect allied to the 

 species {Rivellia persica) described on page 192 of Vol. I of these Notes 

 as destructive to peaches in Chota Nagpore ; but for some unexplained 

 reason the mangoes actually received were found to be unaffected by 

 anything o£ the kind. The only insect discovered in them, after careful 

 search, was the solitary larva of a micro-lepidopterous insect which was 

 about three-sixteenths of an inch long by one thirty-second of an inch 

 thick. It had bored a hole in the side of the mango, but had not pene- 

 trated more than about a quarter of an inch into the pulp. It may, 

 possibly, have been the caterpillar of the moth [Marnca nov. sp., Swinhoe) 

 which has been found boring into the stones of mangoes in Calcutta. 

 Its position shows that it was in all probability hatched from an egg 

 laid by the parent moth in the skin of the nearly ripe fruit. 



The following information has been furnished by Mr. G. Rogers, of the 

 Forest Department, in Darjiling. In April 



Notesfrom Darjiling forests. lunn i i i • i i. • j ^^^„;^.->„i 



■^ ^ 1890 a blackish, hair-covered, processional 



caterpillar, about two inches in length, defo- 



