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like dust, but in a little while hardens; besides the dust, many little brown specks 

 occur. " 



The " flies " forwarded consist of larvse, pupae, and two imagos of a 

 small dipterous insect not unlike that found on decaying fruit in Bengal. 

 Some of the specimens can be determined and will be sent to Europe for 

 this purpose. It appears probable that these iusects may attack the 

 grapes after they have begun to decay from some other cause, such 

 as a fungoid disease : the specimens therefore have been submitted to 

 the botanical authorities in case they are able to throw any light on the 

 subject. Besides the dipterous insect, one empty chrysalis of a small 

 moth has been received ; the precise identity of this species cannot be 

 determined without an examination of the imago ; the insect, however, 

 is not likely to have anything to do with the damage reported. 1 



From the Deputy Commissioner, Bilaspur, and also from the Settle- 



Acridid* in Guzerat ment 0ffieer > Rai P ur > have been received speci- 

 and the Central Prov- mens of an orthopterous insect (Acrididae) known 

 locally as Papka, said to have done considerable 

 damage to young paddy and Kodo (small millet) in the Central Provinces 

 during the rains of 1889 : it is also reported to have been prevalent in 

 B/aipur in 1886, 



This insect is very closely allied to the species forwarded by the 

 Honorary Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society, as having 

 done an immense amount of damage in Kathiawar in August 1889. 



The specimens have been kindly examined by Dr. Henri de Saussure, 

 who reports that the Gujerat insect belongs to a new species of 

 Hieroglyphus which he proposes to describe under the specific name of 

 colesiana ; while the specimens from the Central Provinces belong to the 

 two species Hiero glyph us furcifer, Serville, and Buprepocnemis hramina, 

 deSaussure. 



The following note on the Perilampus described on page 32 of No. I 

 Tea DasycMra. as parasitic on DasycMra thwaitesii has been 



received from Mr. L. O. Howard, Acting United 

 States Entomologist : — 



" May I call your attention to one little matter which interests me particularly 

 for the reason that I have for a number of years been studying Mymenopterous 

 parasites? Among the parasites of the DasycMra which injures tea, I notice that 

 you have TacMnids, a Chalcis, and a Perilampus. Judging from what we know of 

 the habits of Perilampus, it seems to me more likely that it was parasitic upon the 

 Tachinid than upon the DasycMra, and it will, of course, be an interesting point for 

 you to settle." 



1 Help in examining these specimens was most kindly afforded by Dr. D. Prain. 



