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Indian Museum Notes, 



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(2) Images of the species Clinteria confinis, Hope, forwarded in 

 July 1893 by Mr. E. J, Buck. The insect was noticed as 

 attacking peach and apricot trees in Simla. 



Workers of the ant Dorylus longicornis were forwarded iu October 



.. „ 1892 by Mr. E. E, Green, with a suu-g-estion that 



Miscellaneous. -^ . • , , i r. 



this species might possibly be the one rererred to 



on page 42 of volume II of these Notes as attacking potatoes. 



Specimens of a small red ant, which ai)pears to be identical with the 

 workers of the species Monomorium hasale, Smith (Myrmecidse), as deter- 

 mined in the Museum collection, were forwarded iu April 1893 by the 

 Deputy Commissionerj Betul, Central Provinces, with the iuformatiou 

 that they had multiplied to such an extent in the town of Badmir as to 

 have become a great nuisance to the people. 



The Curculionid referred to in volume II, page 12 of these Notes, as 

 attacking young opium plants in the North-West Provinces, has been 

 identified through the idndness of Mons. J. Desbrochers des Loges as 

 belonging to the species Tanymecus indicus, Faust., MS. 



In March 1893 iraagos of the Dermestid Anthrenus vorax, Water- 

 house, which has previously been noticed as attacking skins in the 

 Museum, were forwarded by Mr. L. de Nicevilie, with the information 

 that they had proved destructive to some of the fittings in railway 

 carriages on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. 



Indeterminable chrysomelid larvae were forwarded in July 1892, 

 by Babu N. G. Mukharji, as attacking potato plants in Berhampore. 



The above figure represents the tiger beetle Cicindela sexpunctata 

 Fabr., natural size. This insect is referred to in volume I, pnge 59, 

 volume II, page 148, and volume III, page 17, of these t^otes. It 



