Uo. I] Further Notes. 63 



A summary of what has been recorded about locusts in India is 

 being prepared and will appear in an early number of these " Notes." 



Neuroptera. 



W1 . The Commissioner of Chota Nagpore (Mr. C. 



White ants. #> ot \ -t 1 



L-. otevens), writes L : — 



" White ants. — These are, according to Mr. Driver, a Tea Planter, the only insects 

 which do any harm to the tea cultivation in Loharduggah, but these he gets rid of by 

 constant deep-hoeing. They do not confine their attacks to tea, but most plants are 

 more or less liable to be damaged^by them, though the Manager of the Chota Nag- 

 pore Eaj doubts whether they can attack healthy growing plants. Sugarcane in the 

 Giridhi Sub-division, says the officer in charge of it, is especially liable to the attack 

 of this insect. The Manager of the Chota Nagpore Eaj says that its mode of attack 

 is to eat up the root of live crops and cause the plants to die* The ryots, he says, are 

 not acquainted with any remedy for it." 



The Personal Assistant to the Director of Land Records and Agri- 

 culture, North- Western Provinces, notices, 2 that until the sugarcane 

 borer (Diatraea sacckaralis, Fabr.) appeared near Cawnpore, white ants 

 had been found to be the most serious pest with which sugarcane had to 

 contend, though they could always be more or less effectively checked 

 by heavy watering. 



Several queen white ants in various stages of development, and also 

 a complete nest, have been received 3 from Mr. J. Cleghorn, Balasore. 

 White ants seem to be particularly plentiful in Balasore, and Mr. 

 Cleghorn has already observed one interesting fact regarding them, 

 namely, that the royal cell is often occupied by several queens in various 

 stages of development, there being in some cases two or three fully- 

 developed queens, with their sausage -like bodies laid side by side; in 

 others a single fully-developed queen, 4 together with an active young 

 queen, which has evidently but recently lost its wings. 



A summary of what has been recorded about white ants in India is 

 being prepared, and will appear in an early number of these " Notes/' 



Diptera. 

 Specimens in all stages of development of a parasite of the Bengal 

 Silkworm Fly [TJirycolyga bombycis, Louis), have 

 been received from Mr. C. Marshall, of Berham- 

 pore, who writes 5 — 



" The e^gs of the midge were deposited on the grub of the silkworm 

 fly, within a few bours of the grub's cutting out of the silkworm cocoon 

 it destroyed." 



1 In a report, dated 26th October, forwarded by the Director of Land Records and 

 Agriculture, Bengal. 



2 In a report dated 30th April. 



3 Through Mr. R. Blechynden, of the Agri-Horticultural Society of India. 



4 It has been usually supposed that but a single queen is to be found in each nest. 



5 In a letter dated 11th September 1888. 



