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tunnels however seemed insufficient to account for the- death of the 

 shoots. From a report subsequently furnished by the forest ranger the 

 damage would seem to have been chiefly due to the eating away of the 

 leaves at the top of the shoots by the Chrysomelid. 



In May 1893 specimens' of the fruit of Garruga pinnata, Roxb., 



attacked by insects were forwarded to the 

 Qarrugapinnatav^^i.. Museum from Poona by Mr. Marshall 



Woodrow. The fruit was found to be tunnelled by numerous small 

 Microlepidopterous caterpillars. Galls also were furnished which con- 

 tained the remains of a species of Psyllidge. The caterpillars were 

 reared in the Museum, the moth emerging on 26th May. It proved to 

 belong to the species ConogetJies ^unctiferalis Guen (Pyrales) as deter- 

 mined in the Indian Museum collection. The Psyllid proved to be new 

 to the Museum collection so was submitted to Mr. G. B. Buckton, in 

 England, who describes it on pp. 18 and 19 of these Notes as a new species 

 of Phacoj)teron which he names P. lentiginosum. 



In March 1893 the Assistant Collector, Shahbander Division, 



, . „. , Karachi District, Sind, reported iniury by 



Potato pests m Sind. . : . \ K , i, , { 



injects to experimental plots ot potatoes. 



Specimens of the suspected insects reached the Museum through the 

 Department of Land Kecords and Agriculture, Bombay, after they had 

 been submitted to the Superintendent of Farms, Bombay, who was able 

 to confirm the fact from his own observations elsewhere in the Bombay 

 Presidency, that both species are destructive to potatoes. The most in- 

 iurious form was a caterpillar which cuts the stalks close to the ground 

 at night so that they are found drooping in the morning. The pupa fur- 

 nished was insufficient for the precise identification of the species but no 

 doubt belonos to one of the Noctues moths. The second insect was re- 

 presented by immature specimens insufficient for absolute certainty in 

 specific identification, but likely to belong to the species Liogryllus 

 himaculatus, De Geer as determined in the Indian Museum collection. 



The following insects, as determined in the Indian Museum collec- 

 Notes from the N.-W. tion, were forwarded in July 1893 by the 

 Himalayas. Director of the Imperial Forest School, 



Dehra Dun, from the forests of the Worth-West Himalayas:— 



(1) Specimens of the Cantharid beetle Cantharis antennalisi 

 Marseul, found eating the leaves of Lonicera angustifolia 



