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•' The perfect beetle appears at end of July and beginning of August, and can 

 be found at the end of the burrows at this time of the year. 



" The larval stage evidently extends over several years, for larvK of all sizes are 

 found at the same time of the year. 



"The forest in which this beetle occurs very extensively is a mixture of Shisham 

 {Dalbergia sissoo) and Mulberry {Morus indica). It is worked on the coppice 

 with Standards system. The standards being all Shisham. 



" The beetle does not attack Shisham. With exception of these standards the 

 forest is worked for fuel with a rotation of 15 years. 



*' The damage is therefore not so very serious as far as this forest is concerned." 



6. Kyhlcea piiera, Cram, 



(Sub-ord. Heterocera, Fam. Noctuidae.) 

 Teak pest. 



From Mr. C. C. Hatt, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Puri 

 district, have been received in August 1897 specimens of a moth 

 said to be causing much damage to teak trees in the forest of 

 Khurda. 



The specimens were identified with Hyblsea puera, Cram., a 

 common teak tree pest of India. It has previously been recorded 

 in the pages of these Notes as attacking teak trees in Lower 

 Burma, Dehra Dun, North- West Provinces and in the Kuisi planta- 

 tion in Assam, etc. 



The following is the description of the species as given by Sir 

 G. F. Hampson in Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths. ^ II, p. 371. 



Head and thorax greyish red-brown ; abdomen black-brown with 

 orange segmental bands. Fore wing greyish red-brown, irrorated with 

 a few dark specks. Hind wing black-brown, with curved orange band 

 with scarlet edges from upper angle of cell to near anal angle ; a 

 band on the margin from vein 2 to anal angle. Underside of fore 

 wing black, with orange fascia in cell and far beyond it ; the costa 

 and apex pale brownish with dark specks ; the inner margin yellow. 

 Hind wing pale brownish with dark specks ; orange towards anal 

 angle with two large black spots. 



Larva with a few short hairs ; dark purple-grey above, olive- 

 green below, with dorsal and lateral white lines ; a subdorsal series 

 of minute white dots and rings, a series of black dots on lateral 

 line , head and ist somite black. 



