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tony sacs remain : the insects themselves (as usual in the genus) 

 have fallen off: therefore I cannot identify the species. 



" The other (No. 4), of which you sent three specimens and a 

 small coloured drawing, is a Ceroplastes. The specimens are not 

 sufficient for clearness. They seem to me to be, nearly certainly, 

 either C. vinsonii. Sign. (Mauritius), or C. flortdensis, Comst., 

 which Green reports on tea in Ceylon. Very probably both these 

 are the same species : but your insects are not in the full-grown stage 

 or at least I think not. Every character corresponds to C vinsonh, 

 but also nearly all to floridensis. If you could let me have undoubtedly 

 adult specimens and larvae, I should be more positive. However 

 the thing seems to be one or other of the two species named." 



12. Ceronema s^* [Coccid] — In May 1897, the same officer for- 

 warded to the Museum specimens of tea leaves attacked by scale- 

 insects. No report accompanied the specimens and no locality was 

 mentioned in the forwarding note. 



The insects appeared to be new to the Museum collection and 

 were forwarded to Mr. W. M. Maskell who very kindly identified 

 them as belonging to the genus Ceronema. He wrote, "this is a 

 peculiar and abnormal form which I have had a few months ago 

 from Japan, on Ilex crenata and an unnamed plant. I am very much 

 inclined to attach it to my genus Ceronema of 1894: the main 

 difference from the single species Cero. banksise being that the 

 curling white processes in your insect spring from the median 

 region and curl outwards, while in C. hanksias they are marginal 

 and curl inwards. But I have not yet made up my mind, at least 

 on some minor points." 



II.— INSECTS DESTRUCTIVE TO CEREALS AND CROPS. 

 I, Wheat and paddy pests, etc. 



I. Tanymeciis indicus, Faust. 



(Ord. Coleoptera, Fam. Curculionidae) 



Wheat pest. 



In December 1897, specimens of a Curculionid beetle, which 

 proved to be Tanymecus indicus Faust, were forwarded to the 



