no Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V« 



anal claspers. The larva spins an extremely irregularly shaped 

 triangular cocoon, its long base resting on the leaf, the apex being 

 capped with a bunch of the white fluff with which the larva's body 

 is covered , the rest of the cocoon is made up of chips of the brown 

 bark of the veins of the leaves fastened together with silk. The 

 cocoon is made on the underside of the leaf, generally on the mid- 

 rib and is very inconspicuous, looking like an excrescence of the rib. 

 It measures "] of an inch in length, by *4 in height. The pupa is 

 •4 in length, dark brown in colour, the abdominal segments well 

 marked, cylindrical in shape generally, but slightly tapering from 

 anteriorly backwards ; the head is rounded, the dorsum straight, the 

 anal segment abruptly pointed. 



In Miscellaneous Publication, No. 405, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Sydney, New South Wales (1900), on plate opposite 

 page 9, fig. 1, the larva of Nola metallopa ) Walker, is figured by 

 Mr. Walter W. Froggatt. He notes : (< On the summit of the head 

 rises a regular pyramid, apparently formed of the successive moulted 

 skins of the head, which, becoming attached to the hairs upon either 

 side, are not cast off with the rest of the skin, but remain one above 

 the other like an ornamental headdress. 3 ' This very extraordinary 

 characteristic of the larvae of the Nolinse is probably found through- 

 out the sub-family. 



On Terminalia belerica, Roxb. Natural Order Combre- 



tacece. 



1. Baridius sp. Family Curculionidse . Order Coleoptera. 



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

 School, Dehra Dun, sent the Indian Museum, Calcutta, some small 

 black beetles of the family Curculionidse, found inside the ripe fruits 

 of Terminalia belerica, Roxb., Natural Order Combretacese. These 

 were sent to Mr. Desbrochers des Loges for identification, who 

 writes under date 17th April, 1901, that they belong to the genus 

 Baridius of Schonherr, and are probably new to science. Another 

 beetle of the genus Sinoxylon, Family Bostrychidse, is recorded in 

 "Indian Museum Notes," vol. iii, n. 3, p. 123 (1896), to tunnel into 

 the wood of Terminalia belerica. The beetle is shown in a process 

 block at the top of the page. 



< On Diospyros melanoxylon, Roxb. Natural Order 



Bbenacece 



In " Indian Museum Notes," vol. v, n. 2, pp. 36, 37 (1900), 

 appears a description by Mr. G. B. Buckton of Psylla obsoleta, n. 

 sp., which was found to attack the leaves of the young plants of 



