JJq^ J J Fur f her Notes. 57 



moths well-known, all over the world, as containing" numerous wood 

 boring" species. The caterpillar can no doubt be easily killed by inject- 

 ino" a little kerosene into the hole which it makes in the tea stem, or 

 even by plugi^ing* up the hole with a wooden peg" ; it is very questionable, 

 however, whether it will be found worth while to adopt any such 

 measures. Livechysalids of the insect mio^ht be sent to the Museum to 

 be reared and determined; they will, no doubt, be found in the burrow 

 near its opening. 



In the Museum collection is a specimen of a small moth ticketed as 



injurious to sugarcane, and identified by Mr. Moore 

 Sugarcane moth. , , . . . , m j i -nrr ^^ 



as belonging to a species described by Walker in 



his Catalogue, Lep. Het. B. M., pt. XVI, p. 200, as Dragana pansalis. 



No further information has been obtained about it. 



In the Museum collection is a specimen of a Microlepidopterous insect, 



which was identified by Mr. Moore in 1879 as 

 A Museum pest. i i • i ■ " m- 7 • 



belonging to the species Itnea lucidella (Walker, 



Cat. Lep. Het. B. M.,pt. 28, p. 474). Attached to the insect is a ticket 



marked " The larva is very destructive to the horns of hollow-horned 



ruminants."'' No further information has been obtained concernino* it. 



From the Central Museum, Madras, were received (25th October 1888) 

 Horra caterpillar. ^°"^® caterpillars of a Noctuid moth, for the pre- 

 cise determination of which the imago is required. 

 The caterpillars were reported ^ by the Collector of Kurnool to have 

 appeared in a village in his district, and destroyed Horra (Indian Millet). 



Coleoptera, 



In May 1884 some specimens of a beetle were sent to the Mu- 

 Opiuin and cheroot seum by Dr. L. A. Waddell, of Calcutta, with 

 ^®®^^®- the information that they infested the leaf 



covering of opium balls; in August 1887 specimens were received from 

 Surgeon P. A. Weir, Opium Factory, Ghazipur, North -Western Prov- 

 inces j and in March 1888 specimens were received from Mr. J. Black- 

 wood, who found them in rice in Calcutta. 



The insect was identified as Lasioderma testaceum, by Mr. C. Water- 

 house of the British Museum, who noticed that the insect is almost 

 cosmopolitan and well-known for attacking various vegetable substances. 



In his report on the Ghazipur insect, Mr. Wood- Mason noticed that 

 the same beetle is frequently found in Manilla and Indian cheroots. 



5 Letter No. 3149, dated 12th October 1888, forwarded by the Superintendent, Gov- 

 ernment Museum, Madras, , 



