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A single specimen of a scolytid beetle was received from Captain 



Bingham, of Rangoon, wbo had found about an 

 Rice scolytid. » ■ . -, , i i , i n 



acre or rice, situated near the sea, completely des- 

 troyed by it. Captain Bingham found that the insect bored into the 

 stalks ; he promises further particulars. 



From Mr. B. L. Frizoni, of Hazaribagh, were received some large 

 Bostrychid (Apatid) beetles. Several of these 

 insects were found (April 1888) alive in the in- 

 terior of the stem of a young guava tree which they had killed. They 

 were sent to Europe for precise determination. 1 Part of the stem of 

 a coffee bush was also received, which had been destroyed by the larva? 

 of a boring beetle, whioh is probably Xylotreclms quadmpes, Chevr., the 

 " Coffee-borer " of South India. Dr. Bidie described this pest in a 

 report published by the Government of Madras in 1869 ; he found that 

 shade and good cultivation were the best preventives. 



Larvae of a Dermestes beetle were observed by the writer, in March 

 1888, in vast numbers in wheat godowns in the 

 Delhi market, where they shelter themselves under 

 the plaster on the walls. The owners of the godowns averred that this 

 pest, which they called kapra, sometimes destroys as much as six or 

 seven per cent, of the wheat, which is stored in a godown. The larva? 

 were reared in the Museum, and specimens of the beetle sent to Dr. Gun- 

 ther, of the British Museum, who kindly promised to have them exa- 

 mined. He reports on them as Dermestidae apparently belonging to a 

 species of Trogoderma not previously represented in the British Museum 

 collections. 



Orthoptera. 

 Specimens of an insect have been forwarded to the Museum by Baboo 

 Schizodactylus mon- A. Lall Chatterjee, of Pusa, Darbhunga, who 

 strosus. notices that it is known in that neighbourhood as 



Bherwa, and that it lives in holes about half an inch in diameter, which 

 it constructs in the ground. He reports that it cuts the roots of the 

 young plants of the mokai, tobacco, morwa, and other crops growing on 

 high lauds, and also injures the leaves of tobacco and cauliflower. 



1 These insects were sent to Dr. Gunther, of the British Museum, who kindly promised 

 to have them examined. He has since reported on them as belonging to four species of 

 Bostrychidse, viz., Sinoxylon (species new to the British Museum collection), two species of 

 Bostrychus, which are not named in the British Museum collection, and Ccenophrada 

 anobioides, Waterhouse (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1888). 



