Indian Museum Notes. [ "Sfoi, III. 



season. The figure shows the egg and newly hatched larva dorsal view 

 both magnified about fifty diameters. 



Postscript, 18th April 25,94. — Two lively beetles have to-dny emerged, 

 characteristic holes beiug apparent in the sides of two of the cheroots. 

 On cutting open these two cheroots another beetle just ready to emerge 

 was found inside, also several nearly full-grown larva?. It should be 

 observed that the cheroots have been periodically moistened during the 

 past few months, so development is likely to have been somewhat 

 quicker than it would otherwise have been. 



In January 1894 a specimen was forwarded by Mr. J. Mollison of 



„„ . , . „ , a grub which had been doing a great deal of 



White grub in Surat. ^ -n-.i/o, 



damage to xJrmjal [Salanum melongena) in Surat. 



In some fields every second plant was attacked, the loss occasioned 



being estimated at not less than from R50 to RIOO per acre. Writing 



on 16th January Mr. Mollison remarked that the grubs were then 



deep down in the ground, but that the cultivators said they had 



previously found them near to the surface, the insect being specially 



prevalent after a heavy dressing of manure* The specimen forwarded 



to the Museum unfortunately died upon the journey across India, so 



could not be reared for specific determination. The remains however 



were identified as belonging to the larva of one of the Lamellicorn 



beetles, probably one of the Melolonthini and therefore allied to 



the " white grubs " which occasionally prove destructive on Tea and 



Coffee Estates. Both in Sikkim, where Melolonthini larvae did much 



damage some ten years ago, and also in Ceylon where they at one 



time seriously threatened the Coffee industry, the only measure that 



seems to have been adopted upon any considerable scale was that of 



digging out the grubs by hand. This process, laborious as it no doubt 



is, was found worth adopting in these cases and is likelj' at present to 



be the only one that will find favour in the Surat brinjal fields. Other 



methods of dealing with Melolonthini larvee are described in these Notes, 



Vol. Ill, pp. 4 and 103. 



In January 1893 a small piece of Boswellia serrata wood (salai) was 

 forwarded to the Museum by the Director of the 

 Bosxoellia serrata bor- ^^^^^^ g^j^^^^_ j^ ^^^ perforated in all directions 

 ers. ^ 



with small round holes ranging from less than a 



millimetre to more than four millimetres in diameter. The holes were 



