so Indian Museum Notes. [Vol, III. 



volume, as ascribed to the large red velvety mite {Tetranychus sp.) It 

 seems that this mite is known locally in the Hyderabad Assigned Dis- 

 tricts as Deogai. It appears about the commencement of the monsoon 

 in June and is said to be used in cases of cold and cough, "for adminis- 

 tering internally to children, with one or two betel leaves to keep them 

 warm/' The specimens that were forwarded to the Museum were pre- 

 served in a curious red powder known as kupn formed of a compound of 

 turmeric, lime juice, and borax, which is used by the people for this 

 purpose. 



In September 1893 specimens of the following insects were for- 

 warded by Mr. F. Gleadow from Poena. 

 Poona forest insects. ^^^ ^ p^^.^jj^ ^^^^ ^j^.^j^ frequents 



Bamhusa vulgaris, Dendrocalamus strictus, etc., but has not been noticed 

 as occasioning any great damage. The species proved to be unnamed in 

 the Indian Museum collection, so was forwarded to England for exam- 

 ination by Mr. G. F. Hampson, the able author of the first volume 

 upon Moths, in the series of the Fauna of British India. Mr. Hampson 

 has since identified the insect as Botys ccelesalis, W\k.=vinoralis, Wlk. = 

 itemalesalis, ^\k. = strenualis, W\k.,'=inferpesalis=, Wlk, 



(2) A Chrysomelid beetle belonging to the species Galopepla leayana, 

 Latr., as determined in the Indian Museum collection. 



The insect was reported as cutting unsightly holes in the leaves of 

 the Shivan tree {Gmel'ma arhona) but was not noticed as doing any 

 great damage. It was said to be black in colour with red markings. 



In November 1892 the OflSciating Conservator of Forests, Kydera- 



^ , . , bad Assigned Districts, reported that con- 



Bamboo insects. -jiij 11, 1 ., 



siderable damage had been done m the 



Melghat Forest by a boring insect which destroyed the tops of bamboo 



{Dendrocalamus) shoots, thereby arresting their growth. Specimens were 



forwarded to the Indian Museum through the Director of the Imperial 



Forest School, Dehra Dun. They comprised the following insects as 



determined in the Museum collection : — 



(1) Estigmena chinensis, Hope (Chrysomelidoe), two adults. 



(2) Coleopterous larvse, two specimens, likely to be the immature 



form of No. (I). 



(3) Indeterminable Microlepidopterous larvse, two specimens. 



Injured bamboo shoots were afterwards forwarded. The thicker 

 portion of the stems had been tunnelled by some insect which may not 

 improbably have been the Microlepidopterous larvae noticed above. The 



