34 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V. 



In February 1898 the Director, Imperial Forest School, Dehra 



_ . . Dun, forwarded particulars and specimens to 



Casuanna tree borer. , , » , r . . r , , . . . , 



the Museum of an insect found boring into 



casuarina trees in the forest of Nellore. 



The worms proved to be the larvae of a moth probably one of 

 the Hepialidae. The specimens being insufficient for further identi- 

 fication. 



The following is an extract taken from a report furnished by the 

 District Forest Officer, Nellore :— 



"So far as 1 know as yet the borer is doing no great damage, especially as the 

 trees ate used for fuel and not timber. But in matters of this kind — and the 

 more so in plantations where only one species of tree is grown — it is well to take 

 advice at as early a stage as possible not only with a view to providing a remedy 

 against the attack itself, but to be on one's guard against other possible com- 

 plications which may arise from the vigor of the trees being interfered with." 



DETERMINATION OF FOREST PEvSTS FORWARDED TO 

 THE INDIAN MUSEUM DURING THE YEAR 1898. 



Deodar cone pest. — Insects reported to be attacking the deodar 

 cones in the forest of Jaunsar, forwarded through the Director, Imperial 

 Forest School, Dehra Dun. 



The specimens proved to be a Pyralid moth of the species Euso- 

 phera punicceella, Moore, which has previously been recorded in 

 Indian Museum Notes, Volume II, page 28, as boring into the fruit of 

 the pomegranate in Baluchistan. 



The identification of the insect has been kindly furnished by Sir 

 G. F. Hampson, Bart. 



2. Bombax malabaricum wood pest. — The Bostrychid beetle, 

 forwarded by the Superintendent, Government Museum, Madras, as 

 doing a good deal of damage by boring into tea boxes made of the 

 wood of Bombax malabaricum at Calicut, has been identified by 

 Mons. Lesne as belonging to the species Bostrychus aequalis, Wat. 

 The insect is illustrated in plate III, fig. 7. 



3. Coppice shoot pest.—The insects forwarded by the Conservator 

 of Forests, Punjab, as damaging young " jaud " coppice shoots in his 

 district, were determined as Homceocrus variabilis, Dallas, a bug 

 of the family Coreidae. 



G. I.C. P. O.— No. 142 E. & A,— 21-6 1900.— 1.000.— J.W.G. 



