22 Tiirlinn Miifteum Noles. [ Vol. III. 



identificatioiij was forwarded by Messrs. Maekinnon, Mackenzie & Co., 



,.,,.„ ^ from Nowyongr- Assam, where the inseet 



Geoinetnd caterpiUai' on ten. . , ' 



w:is siiid to have been damao-ino- the tea 



{Camellia theifera) ])ushes, (leometrid caterpillars have i)ot previously 



been reported as doino^ any appreciable dainag^e to tea, and the present 



insect therefore is not expected to be of much importance. 



Insects said to infest the Terminnha helerica tree in the Thana dis- 

 trict, Bombay, were forwarded to the M usenm 

 Terminalia helerica vests. . ,, , "nom i tv/t iti /--i i r> . i 



in February 1>S91 by Mr. F, Gleadow of the 



Forest Department. The insects were found to be of two kinds — (1) a 

 Bostrychid borer, identical with specimens reported on by Dr. Giintlier 

 of the British Museum as Sinoxvlon sp., and (2) a srnall Cucujid which 

 has been submitted to Mons. Fairmiare, who has kindly examined it 

 and reports that it belongs to the species Lamof.wel^ia inngnin Grouville. 

 The Cucujid is not likely to do much damage, but the Bostrychid is verj'- 

 probably destructive. ^__ 



Amongst the enemies of wild silk- worms in India may be noticed 

 Icbnenmomd destructive to a large yellow Ichneumonid received from 

 wild silk inserts. Hazaribagh, where it was said to attack the 



caterpillars of Cricula trifevesirala. The same inseet has been bred in 

 the Indian Museum for a caterpillar of the Hesperid butterfly Telegonns 

 i/irax, also from a cocoon of the wild silk insect Antheran. roylei. In 

 the latter case it had destroyed the chrysalis and filled the cocoon with 

 its own pupal cells as shown in plate 9, fig. e, of volume II of these 

 Notes. The Indian Museum also contains specimens from Sikkim, bred 

 by the late Mr. Otto Moller, both from the butterfly Telegomts tkruac and 

 also from the wild silk inseet Anilieroia frithii. The specimens in the 

 Museum collection agree in general markings with the description of 

 Piihlila pnndator,\i\ViTi.'a,'S, ^\NQ\\ by Vollenlioven in the Stettin Ento" 

 mologisehe Zeitung, volume 40, p. 143, 1879. As however Vollenhoven 

 gives Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, and China as the habitat of the 

 species, and as the only measurement which he gives of the length of 

 body is 11 millimetres, while the average length of both male and 

 female specimens (excluding the ovipositor) in the Indian Museum 

 collection is 17 millimetres, the specimens being very constant in size? 

 it seems best for the present to look upon the Indian form as a variety. 

 This variety may be provisionally named Pimpla cricula, so as to prevent 

 confusion in the event of its proving distinct from V. pnnctator Linn.-^ 



^ The specimens liave since been submitted to Mr. P. Ciimpron, who notices (Mem. 

 and Pro-!. Miinchester Lit. nnd Pliilos. Soc., 1890-91) that they belong to the special 

 Fim/pla pwictator Linn, a species which he remarks is widely distributed over the oriental 

 resion. i\lr. Cameron also notices the species Pimpla ~ehra Yollenh'^ven as bied from 

 Cn cilia tri/enestrofa. 



