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The Tea insects of India. 



reported from a garden in the Western Dooars. Of the insects for- 

 warded to the agents in Calcutta, ?ome were identical with specimens in 

 the Museum collection determined by Dr. Henri de Saussure as his 

 Catantops indicws, which is figured below natural size, while others were 



a variety of the same species characterised by the absence of striped 

 markings on the posterior femora. 



Two specimens of the species Acridium flavicome, Fabr., as deter- 

 mined in the Indian Museum collection, were afterwards forwarded as 

 associated with the insect first reported. 



A small specimen of the male of Acridium jlavicorne, Fabr., from the 

 Museum collection, is figured above, natural size. 



In the end of February the Manager wrote that he had been to a 

 great extent successful in destroying the insects, and that he had not 

 heard of their appearing on any of the neighbouring gardens. The 

 method adopted was hand-collecting by coolies, who were paid two 

 annas per hundred insects. Up to the date of his letter the Manager 

 estimated that he had destroyed 31,770 insects in this way, with the 

 result that they were getting so much scarcer that, at the time he wrote, 

 the coolies were only biinging in about 25 per cent, of the daily number 

 they bad been able to obtain when hand-collecting was first started. 



Acrididge of this kind are likely to lay their eggs in the ground. 

 The larvse are active grasshoppers, which differ from the adult chiefly in 

 being smaller in size and wingless. They are active throughout their 

 entire existence, and devour the leaves of plants in large quantities. The 



