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Dactylopiin^e— 



Dactylopius citri, Risso. 



,, sacchari, Ckll. 



Riper sia sacchari, Green. 

 Eriococcus paradoxus, var. indica, Mask. 



TACHARDIINzE— 



Tachardia fici, Green. 



MONOPHLEBIN^— 



Monophlebus stebbingi, Green. 

 ,, dalbergise, Green. 



NOTES ON INSECT PESTS FROM THE ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SECTION, INDIAN MUSEUM. 



I.— INSECT PESTS OF FOREST TREES. 



On Hhovea robusta, Gaertn. Natural Order Dipterocarpece* 



The Sal tree. 



On Helicteres Isora, L. Natural Order Sterculiacece. 



On other trees and plants not specified. 



1. Monophlebus sp. Sub-family Monophlebinse. Family Coccid&, 

 Sub-order Homoptera. Order Hemiptera. 



In June, 1900, Mr. F. Gleadow, Deputy Director, Imperial Forest 

 School, Dehra Dun, sent some coccids which do much damage to the 

 twigs and leaves of the Sal tree [Shorea robusta, Gaertn., Natural 

 Order Dipterocarpeae), and were also found on Helicteres Jsora, L. 

 Natural Order Sterculiacess, and other trees and plants in the Dehra 

 Dun district from January onwards. Mr. Gleadow notes that the 

 insect is of two colours, one orange, the other brown. 



The insects were forwarded to Mr. E. Ernest Green, Government 

 Entomologist, Ceylon, who noted that they are immature examples 

 of a coccid of the sub-family Monophlebinse, but that it is impossible 

 to determine either genus or species without adult material. " The 

 mature female will probably be a comparatively large insect, possibly 

 as much as half an inch in length, and should be looked for on the 

 branches and trunks of the trees/' 

 On Boswellia serrata, Roxb, Natural Order Burseracece. 



1. Dasyses rugosellus, Stn. Family Tineidse. Sub-order Fha- 

 Isenas, Order Lepidoptera. Plate XV, fig. 3, $ imago enlarged. 



In " Indian Museum Notes," vol. iii, n* 5, pp. 46, 47 (1896), 

 it is recorded that a moth was reared in the Museum from the wood 



