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an existence to have much chance of continuing the good work of keep- 

 ing down the Icerya effectively. 



Specimens have been forwarded to the Museum by Baboo N. G. 

 r, , , • , 7. Mukharii of a Coccid which has been renorted 

 as injuring mulberry bushes in Berhampore. The 

 insect has the peculiar effect of causing the mulberry leaves to wilt uj) 

 and become puckered. Baboo N. G. Mukbarji reports that he has 

 found Kerosine emulsion of use against the insect. Writing in July 1893 

 he remarks — " the lield treated last November is almost unaffected while 

 all the other fields are just as bad this year as in previous years/^ The 

 insect proved to be new to the Indian Museum collection, so was submit- 

 ted to Mr. W. M. Maskell, who kindly examined the specimens and was 

 able to identify theoi with some doubt as belonging to the species 

 Bactylopius hromelia, Bonche, for although anatomically similar to this 

 species the representatives that were forwarded differed in not possessing 

 a covering of cottony matter. The absence of the cottony covering was no 

 doubt merely due to the action of the alcohol in which the insect was 

 preserved, for specimens subsequently obtained proved to be covered with 

 a considerable amount of white cottony secretion. The figure is from 

 a specimen from Berhampore. 



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