i85 Indian Museum Notes, [Vol. IV. 



Messrs. Williamson, Magor & Co. who reported that it had been 

 doing damage among the tea bushes on one of their Assam Estates 

 'n the Jorehaut district. 



This insect (known as the " Orange'" beetle) is commonly found 

 in tea gardens in Assam, where it no doubt does a good amount of 

 injury by eating up the tender stems of tea-shoots. 



Specimens accompanied by complaints of damage done by it are 

 annually sent to the Museum, but no action, it appears, has hitherto 

 been taken to ascertain the life-history of the pest. 



Some previous accounts of it may be found in Indian Museum 

 Notes, Vol. I, page io6, and Vol. II, No. 4, p. 7. 



7. Cremastog aster rogenJioferif Mayr. 



(The red and black ant of the Tea bushes.) 

 Plate XV, fig, /, a. ant ; b, nest. 



In his report on the '' Pests and Blights of the Tea Plant of 

 Assam, 1898, " Dr. G. Watt, Reporter on Economic Products to the 

 Government of India, makes mention, in page 257, of a red and 

 black ant which he had observed infesting tea bushes in Assam. 



His elaborate account of the habits, etc., of the insect is very 

 interesting, but his identification of the species with Cremastogaster 

 content a, Mayr., is incorrect. Dr. Watt was good enough to present 

 specimens to the Entomological Section of the Indian Museum, these 

 are undoubtedly identical with authentically named specimens of 

 Cremastogaster rogenhoferiy Mayr., in the Museum collection. 



To make quite certain, a few examples of the insect were des- 

 patched to Dr. Forel, of Zurich, who confirmed the identifica- 

 tion as " Cremastogaster rogenhoferi, Mayr., one of the commonest 

 species of India." 



8. Euproctis caterpillar'^, — On the 19th March 1897, from 

 Dr. G. Watt, Reporter on Economic Products to the Government 

 of India, were received specimens of a caterpillar reported as doing 



