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ImJian Mvspnm. Notes. 



[ Vol. III. 



{•Z) Aphelinns thece n. sp. (plate I, fig's. 5 and ha) bred l.y 

 Mr. F. "W. H. Miles from the tea scale insect Chionaspis 

 thecB Maskell. 

 Fteromalus oryzoe n. sp. (plate I, figs. 2 and 'id), believed 



to be parasitic on the rice weevil Calandra oryzce Linn. 

 Cotesia Jlnvipes n. sp. (plate I, figs. 3 and ^a) bred in 

 the Museum fromcaterpillai's of the destructive sorghum 

 borer Diatraa sp. received from Poona. 



(3) 

 (4) 



Stromatinm Larbatnin. 



S)iccinieus of the Cerambycid beetle Stomatium. barbntum, Fabr., were 

 forwarded to the Museum in June 1891 by 

 the director of the Forest School, Dehra, 

 with the information that the}' had been damag-ing wood specimens in 

 tlie School Museum. A block of khair wood [Acacin Catechu) that was 

 forwarded with the beetles was found to have the whole of the sap wood 

 riddled with tunnels made by the larvae. These tunnels were tightly 

 l^aeked with the powdered wood that had been eaten out and probably 

 ])assed through the digestive organs of the grub. The hard heart wood 

 was untouched. 



Asp'domorpha militaris. 



The Cassid Asjvdomorpha mii/ilaris Fabr., has been reared in the 

 Museum upon convolvulus {Conrolvnlacea:) 

 leaves. Young larvae received on 7th July 

 became adult on 29th of the same mojith, b}' 2l)tli Sejitember these ima<:os 



had laid a large 

 number of iio^<y cap- 

 sules, which pro- 

 duced young larvae, 

 [n the rains in Cal- 

 cutta, therefore, this 

 insect takes little 

 over two months to 

 complete the cycle 

 of its existence. 

 The e^g capsules 

 are large oblong 

 agglutinated mass- 

 es, sometimes more 

 than half an inch in 

 length. The larvae 

 are the little spined 

 creatures shown in 

 tiie figure. Tiiey shed their skins at intervals, the cast skins remaining 



