Ho. !• ] Miscellaneous Notes. 33 



'I'he following- ni;scellai)e()us posis have been determiiu'd for the 



Dctcnniniition of iniscclla- Museum by AI r. Oliver i*'. Jauson : — 

 meous pests. ' 



(1) A Dipterous insect said to attack man<);'nes {Mangifera indica) 

 in Lower Reiigal. This vva* compared with specimens in the 

 British Museum and identified as Ducus ferrug'mens Fabr. 



{:2) Cantharidee said to damage crops of yellow cholum (/ 8or- 

 ghnm vulgar e) in Madr.is. ^Ihese were compared with spe- 

 cimens named by Dr. Haaq, and identified as belong-ing- to 

 the two species Epicauta rouxi Cast, and Ejilcauta tenici- 

 colli Pall. 



(3) Teuebrionidsesaid to attack young linseed {Linum usitatissi- 



viuiii') and whe;it [IriticMvi sativum.) plants in Katwa, Ben- 

 gal, determined as Opntrum depressum Fabr.* 



(4) Dermestida3 destructive to stored wheat {7'rUtc?itn saf,iv?im) 



in the Delhi bazaar, identified as /Ethriostoma undulaia 

 Motsch. 



(5) Bostrychidse said to have been found borino- into the 



stem of a g-uava tree [Psidium Gnaia) in Hazaribagh, 

 identified as Bnstrjjctnis sp., Sinovxi/lon sp., and CcBnophrada 

 avobioides Waierhouse. The last species was identitied 

 after comparison with the type specimens. 



(6) Curculionidse reported as destructive to Hibiscus plants in 



Durbhunga, identified after comparison with the orig-inal 

 type specimen, as Lesmidophorti.'i kebes Fabr. 



(7) Curculionidse reported as destructive to garden plants in 



Durbhunga, identified as Asti/cus Lateralis Fabr. 



(8) White-ants forwarded from JBalasore in December 1^8S, 



compared with the original type specimen and identified 

 ' as Termes taprobanes Walker. 



In the Memoirs and Proceedings of the ilanchesler Literary and 

 Philosophical ^c;a>/(^, 1890-91, Mr. P. Cameron describes and figures 

 the following insects which he has been so kind as to examine. It is 

 hoped that the insects will shortly be returned so that the type speci- 

 mens may be preserved in the collections of the Museum ; — 



(1) Plalygaster oryzce n. sp. (plate 1, figs. 6 and 8) bred by 

 Mr, Wood-Mason from Cecidomyia oryza W. M., a 

 midge said to have proved destructive to paddy {Oryza 

 sativa) in Monghyr in October 1880. ' 



' The species Opatrum micans is recorded as injurious to crops by Miss Oriuerod. 

 (Injurious Insects of South Africa, p. 19). 



