No. 1.] Miscellaneous Notes. 27 



1894, through the Officiating Director of the Department of Land 

 Records and Agriculture, Burma, from the Superintendent of Land 

 Records, Pegu, who reports : — 



" It is called ' Phalsnbyu.' It makes its appearance shortly after the paddy 

 has been sown. It attacks the plants both on high and low lands. The insect 

 commences to eat the paddy leaves at the top, working downwards. The yield or 

 outturn of fields attacked by it is small. The stalks also are eaten till they 

 become matured and hard. The specimens were obtained from Wet-la-kwin, 

 Pagandaung circle." 



In September 1894 Mr. J. A. Mollison forwarded to the Indian 



Museum specimens of Brinjal leaves attacked 

 Epilachna dodecastignta, i • , <• n r-. t- tt 



jyjyjg^ by msects from the roona rarm. He 



wrote : — 

 " The affected plants were found in the n-.iddle of a field, and the 

 damage done is considerable. The damage is greater than the number 

 of insects now present could account for. There are not many insects now 

 on the plants. They might have been more numerous at one time. The attack 

 was not noticed until considerable damage had been done, because confined to 

 the middle of the field." 



The brinjal leaves proved to be attacked by larvse .of a Cocci- 

 nellid beetle. Out of a number of pupae found on the leaves, only 

 one imago emerged alive in the rearing cage; the others, which were 

 found to be heavily parasitised by a minute chalcid fly, died from 

 the effects of the attack, each pupa harbouring as many as eight 

 parasites. The beetle appeared to be identical with the species 

 Epilachna dodecastigma, Muls., as determined in the Indian 

 Museum collection. 



In August 1894 some specimens of a Bostrichid beetle were sent 



„. , to the Museum by Mr. A. Smythies, Ofhciat- 



Smoxylon sp. •' J * ^ 



ing Conservator of Forests, Shillong, with 

 the information that they were found boring into tea-box planks at 

 Tezpur, where they are locally called " Ghong, " 



The insect proved to be identical with the specimens named 

 Sinoxylon sp., previously sent to the Museum, as infesting the 

 wood of Terminalia belerica. 



In the latter part of July 1894 numerous specimens of a Cocci- 



Vedalia fumida, var. nellid beetle were found feeding upon the 



toseipennis, Muls. Coccids, Icevya w^yptiacumy Dough, which 



had again made their appearance among the ornamental bushes in 



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