io6 Indian Museum Notes. [ Vol. V. 



numbers. Where the trees are large and numerous this remedy 

 would obviously be ineffectual. 



On Acacia Catechu, Willd. Natural order Zeguminosw* 



i. Sinoxylon crassum^ Lesne. Family Bostrychidgs. Order Coleop~ 

 tera. Plate viii, figs. 2, 2#, dorsal and lateral views. 



In July, i goo, Mr, J. W. Oliver, Director of the Imperial Forest 

 School, Dehra Dun, sent a wood-boring beetle, found by Mr. F. 

 Gleadow, Deputy Director, Imperial Forest School, on Acacia 

 Catechu, Willd., Natural Order Leguminos%, vernacular name 

 "Khair." The specimens were sent to Mr. P. Lesne of the Natural 

 History Museum, Paris, who pronounced them to be Sinoxylon eras- 

 sum^ Lesne, Family Bostrychid& } and who thus described the species 

 in Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xli, p. 21, n. 12 (1897):— 



" Sinoxylum crassum, n. sp. (S. captura, Guerin, medit.) Oblongum, latum 

 parallelum, portice leviter dilatatum, omnino brunneum, sat nitidum, antennis 

 tarsisque rufis. Dentes frontales bene distincti vel indistincti. Elytra fortiter 

 punctata poftice striata ; interstitiis alteris costalis, in margine superiore declivita- 

 tis posterioris gibbosis ; sulculo marsrinali elytrorum usque ad apicem aequaliter 

 perducto ; spinis subsaturalibus contiguis, compressis, in sutura insertis. — Long 

 7— 8J mill." 



" Province de Bombay : Belgaum, en avril, a. la lumiere (Andrewes) et Canara 

 (T. R. D. Bell) ; Birmanie (G. Q. Corbett)." 



"Cette espece, voisine du S. capillatum, Lesne (Ann. Fr.. 1895, p. 175), est re- 

 pandue dans les deux peninsules sud — orientales de l'Asie ; on la trouve aussi 

 aux lies Philippines." 



This beetle is probably the one referred to in "Indian Museum 

 Notes, vol. v, n. 2, p. 53 (1900) as burrowing into " Khair " {Acacia 

 catechu) trees in the Thana district of Bombay by Mr G. M. Ryan> 

 Deputv Conservator of Forests, Western Circle. It is noted (!. c.) as 

 attacking " Sal " {Shorea robusta), Terminalia belerica^ the guava 

 (Psidium Guyana), and other trees in different parts of India. 



The figures show dorsal and lateral views of the beetle twice 

 natural size. • 



On Terminalia Catappa, Linnaeus. Natural Order Com,' 

 bretacem* The country almond tree or "desi badam." 



Sub-order Phalsense, Order Lepidoptera. 



The insects noted below all of which are moths, were found during 

 the rainy season in Calcutta feeding in the larval state on the leaves 

 of Terminalia Caftippa, Linn?eus, of the Natural Order Combretacex. 

 It is a large and highly ornamental tree, reaching a height of eighty 

 feet, and is planted throughout India, Ceylon, Burma, and many 

 tropical countries. It is known in Calcutta as the " desi badam " or 

 "country almond." 



