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Moulmein District, have been received from the Reporter on 

 Economic Products to the Government of India, in December 

 1896:— 



Bottle No. I contained two caterpillars of a Geometrid moth, and 

 one larva of a Noctues moth. These are reported as attacking the 

 leaves of the orange tree. 



Bottle No. 2 consisted of fourteen specimens of a Microlepidop- 

 terous larva in different stages of development. Reported as destroy- 

 ing the bark and the wood of the orange tree. 



Bottle No. 3 contained three larvae of a Cerambycid beetle, and 

 one specimen of a Lucanid beetle of the genus CEgus. These are 

 reported to attack both the bark and the wood of the orange tree. 



IV.— FOREST PESTS. 



Beetles, etc. — A rough report dated 20th July 1896, together 

 with some specimens of forest-insects, have been received in the 

 Indian Museum from Mr. E. Stebbing, Officiating Conservator of 

 Forests in charge Tista Division, Darjeeling District. 



With one exception, these insects have not been previously 

 reported as affecting forest trees in India, and it is therefore desir- 

 able that further particulars should be obtained regarding them for 

 record in the pages of these Not^s, 



The following are the insects mentioned in the report :— 



No. I. — Consists of pupae cases of a Curculionid beetle, which 

 cannot be further identified without the examination of the imago. 

 Mr. Stebbing writes " that on stripping off the bark from some 

 felled Kadam {Anthocephalus cadamba) trees the rough cocoons were 

 disclosed situated between the bark and the wood, a small portion 

 of the latter being in many cases gnawed away (presumably by the 

 larva) to form a slight cavity over which a rough collection of 

 chips of wood and fibre had been put together by the larva to form 

 a cocoon. 



The pupae-cases were found on the 14th April 1896 in Tista 

 Valley. Elevation about 1,100 feet." 



No. 2. — Specimens of an insect found riddling the wood of Siris 

 {Albizzia stipulatd) tree, — consist of undeveloped imagos of a Cur- 

 culionid beetle in a poor state of preservation for precise identifi- 

 cation. 



No. J. — Specimen of a calcareous egg-like case found in a newly 

 fallen Amara {Spondias mangifera) tree, proves to be a pupa-case 



