No. 3.] Fruit trees. 11^ 



seed is almost an entire failure." Mr. Lowrie noted in his letter of 

 22nd February, 1901, that this same bug <( Is now doing no end of 

 damage to the "Jawari" crop ,; ; but he sent no specimen, so it is 

 not quite certain that the jawari and bamboo insects are the same 

 species. The bamboo pest has been identified by Mr. W. L. Distant 

 as Ochrophara montana, Distant, Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., 1900, 

 p. 165. Mr. Distant noted that he "Described it from a long series, 

 and it is peculiar by having in some specimens the lateral angles of 

 the pronotum spined, and in others not so, and that this is probably 

 not due to accident." In his original description of this species (I.e.) 

 which he recorded from the Naga Hills, Tavoy, and the Karen Hills, 

 he said it u Is of the most extraordinary variability, not only as 

 regards markings, which are not abnormal, but exhibiting a plastic 

 mobility in structure which is very unusual. In a series collected 

 for me by Mr. Doherty on the Karen Hills there is a specimen in 

 which the anterior apices of the posterior pronotal angles are pro- 

 duced in acute spines directed forwardly and somewhat upwardly. 

 This might be taken to denote a distinct species did not the series 

 contain three specimens in which this spine is developed on one side 

 of the pronotum only — left side in two specimens, and right side in 

 the third.' 7 In the three specimens from Chanda in the Museum 

 collection, the spines are present in one, absent in two. 



II.— INSECT PESTS OF FRUIT TREES. 



On Dillenia indica, Linnaeus. Natural Order Dilleniacece. The 



"Chalta" fruit. 



1. Glyphodes nega talis, Walker. Family Pyralida?. Sub-order 

 Phalsense. Order Lepidoptera. 



The larva of Glyphodes negatalis, Walker, was found in Calcutta 

 in December tunnelling into the fruit of the u Chalta", A note on 

 this species will be found on page 1 14 under Ficus religiosa, Linnaeus, 

 the Pipul tree. 



On Citrus decumana, Linn. Natural Order Rutaceae. The 



Shadock or Pomelo. 



1. Ophideres fullonica, Linnseus. Sub-family Quadrifinze. 

 Family Noctuida?. Sub-order Phalsenae. Order Lepidoptera. 



On August 7th, 1900, the Editor and Proprietor, l Indian 

 Gardening and Planting? sent a " Butterfly, the grub of which causes 

 great damage to the fruit of the pomelo {Citrus decumana) on the 

 Bombay side." The Editor printed the following letter in his paper, 



