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Dunne the past rains the well-known coleopterous pests Anthrenus 

 vorax and Tribolium castaneum were again reported 

 as troublesome in the Indian Museum, the former 

 to dried mammal skins, the latter to bran used for packing. Specimens 

 of Lasioderma testaceum, were also obtained from Burma cheroots, thus 

 confirming the observation that this is the beetle which so often destroys 

 cheroots by tunnelling into them. 



From Mr. Daly of Coonoor have been received specimens of a scale in- 

 Apple scale in Coo- sect (supposed to be Schizoneura lanigera), with the 

 uoor. information that it has done great damage to nearly 



every apple-orchard in Coonoor, attacking both the roots and. branches 

 of the trees. The insect is said usually to commence its operations on 

 the roots, and this makes it extremely difficult to ascertain its presence 

 and to adopt remedies before it has obtained such a hold upon the 

 orchard as to be practically ineradicable. In some orchards, as soon as 

 a tree is found to be infested, it is cut down and the roots are dug up 

 and burnt. Kerosine emulsion, however, when applied at an early stage 

 of the attack, appears likely to render such radical measures unnecessary. 

 Tomato planted round the apple trees is said to preserve them from the 

 attack ; this observation, however, requires confirmation. 



The following is an extract from Mr. Daly's letter : — 



" Out of four hundred apple trees I found about six unmistakeably affected. I 

 cut all branches badly attacked and burned them. I then mixed a solution of soap 

 (common country) and petroleum with a little turpentine and boiling water, stirring 

 round until it was the consistency of butter. After allowing it to get cool I mixed 

 one bottle of this with twelve of water and applied it with a garden syringe to the 

 branches and roots. I also applied the soapy congealed matter to any of the insects 

 concealed in the crevices of the trees and also to the trunks. A few days after this 

 I applied in the same manner a mixture of lime and ashes, with a little salt mixed. 

 This dries up the lichen and causes it to fall off during the prevalence of rain. I com- 

 menced this treatment about ten days ago, and to-day (13th of November) I cannot 

 find a single insect, but I am told it is not improbable that they may return : however, 

 I shall keep a sharp look-out for them, The kerosine and soap emulsion does not 

 seem to harm the trees." 



Specimens of the pest have since been received from Bangalore, where 

 it is said to be doing very serious injury. A general account of it is 

 being prepared by Mr. E. T. Atkinson for publication in an early number 

 of these Notes. 



The large grey Bruchid which attacks stored peas in Calcutta, eating 



out the interior of the pea and leaving little more 



than an empty skin, much in the way that the 



weevil Calandra oryzm eats out the contents of grains of wheat and rice, 



