JJo» 5. ] Miscetlaneons Notes. 47 



largely stopped up with fungoid growth but in tbetn were found live 

 Coleopterous and Lepidopterous larvse. The Coleopterous larvse were 

 insufficient for precise identification but a moth was reared in the 

 Museum from one of the Lepidopterous larvse. It proved to be a 



Microlepidopterous species new to the Indian Museum collection. It 

 has since been examined by Lord Walsingbam who considers it 

 congeneric with the species figured by Snellen (Tijd. Voor. Ent. XXVIII, 

 PI. II, figs. 1-4, 1884) under the name of Hapsiferarugosella, n. sp. 

 The insect is not unlikely to be a representative of a new species but 

 further specimens are required to enable it to be described. The figure 

 shows the moth dorsal view enlarged. The natural size is indicated by 

 hair lines. 



In July 1893 specimens were forwarded through the Imperial Forest 



, , , School, Dehra, of an insect found tunnellino- into 



Aeacta catechu borer. i i » . t 



the sapwood of Acacia catechu. It proves to be a 



beetle o£ the family Ptinidse which has previously been sent to the 



Indian Museum as attacking Tenninalia belerica timber. Its precise 



identification has not yet been ascertained but the insect at present 



stands under the genus Sinoxylon in the collection. Along with 



the Ptinidse beetle was a Hymeuopterous insect which is likely to be 



parasitic upon the borer. It has not yet been identified. 



In September 1893 a Cerambycid beetle identical wiih specimens 

 in the Museum eolleefion which stand under the 

 girdiTrf ^^''' *''''*''''''' name of Xylorrhiza adusta, Wiedm. was forwarded 



through the Dehra Forest School from the Con- 

 servator of Forests, Southern Circle, Madras. The insect was reported 

 as ringing the branches of Wrightia tinctoria, a habit which does not 

 appear to have previously been noticed in connection with this species. 



