No. 3,] Fruit trees. isi 



Botanical Gardens at Sibpur which were similarly affected as the 

 trees at Darbangha have all fallen off and are lying beneath the 

 trees, and there is no longer a diseased leaf on the trees; the young 

 leaves now coming out are quite free from any trace of it. The old 

 leaves that were unaffected by it have not fallen at all, and the trees 

 are apparently none the worse for the visitation, though they have 

 lost every leaf that was affected by it. 



This interesting blight should receive further investigation next 

 spring, and the mite identified. 



2. Cryptophiebia carpophaga, Walsingham. Family Tineina. 

 Sub-order Phalsenas. Order Lepidoptera. Plate XV ', figs. <2a , larva 

 enlarged', 2b, half of a lie hi fruit, showing the stone and the pupa 

 of the moth ; 2, male imago, enlarged. 



In June, 1894, a moth reared in Calcutta from a lichi fruit, was sent 

 to Mr. J. H. Durrant for favour of identification. From the draw- 

 ing of the fruit reproduced on plate XV it would appear that the larva 

 of the moth feeds on the seed or stone of the fruit. Mr. Durrant iden- 

 tifies the insect as Cryptophiebia carpophaga, Walsingham, described 

 in "Indian Museum Notes," page 106, plate vii, fig. 1a, larva • 

 id, pod of food'plant and pupoe\ \b, male ; ic, female (1900). 

 The type specimens were reared in Calcutta from the pods of both 

 Cassia Fistula, Linn., and C. occidentalis, Linn. Natural Order 

 Leguminosse. It was again bred in the Indian Museum in June, 

 19.01. The moth, pupa and larva of the lichi worm is figured on 

 plate xv, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b. 



3. Tineid moth sent to Lord Walsingham for identification. 

 Plate xv t figs. 4, imago enlarged ; 4 a, cocoon with empty pupa 

 case. 



In June, 1901, Mr. I. Henry Burkill, Assistant Reporter on 

 Economic Products to the Government of India, presented to the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, two specimens of a tineid moth which 

 attacks the lichi fruit in Calcutta, accompanied by the following 

 note:— * 



The little white grub which, this year, was in 99 per cent of the lichi fruit of 

 the Calcutta market, eats the funicle or stalk of the seed, but touches no part of 

 the fruit. The funicle, being the way by which food passes to the seed, is probably 

 highly nutritious as long as growth is actively going on above it. In it the grub 

 tunnels. 



When the fruit is perfectly ripe, and the funicle consequently is no longer full 

 of nutrient matter, the grub emerges to the air by biting through the fruit-wall at 

 the base close to the stalk and then makes a cocoon in some convenient angle. 

 The cocoon is hammock-shaped, but may equally be above or below the object to 



