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from North India to the Nilgiri Hills and in Burma. The specimens 

 bred in June are pale ochreous, those in July are much darker, pale 

 ferruginous or castaneous ; in all the markings are prominent. 



On Rosa sp. Natural Order Mosacece. The Rose. 



1. Serica (Autoserica) Calcutta?, Brenske, Family Melolonthidse 

 Order Coleoptera. Plate vii, fig. 4, ?, X4, dorsal view; 4a, lateral 

 view. 



The melolonthine beetle, Serica {Autoserica) Calcutta?, Brenske, 

 was found on a rose bush in the compound of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, and was sent to Dr. Ernest Brenske for identification. It 

 has previously been figured in Indian Museum Notes, vol. iv, n. 4, 

 p. 176, pi. xiii, fig. 3 (1898). The figures now given show dorsal and 

 lateral views much enlarged of the specimen mentioned above. 



On Crinum Icttifoliwm, Linn. Natural Order Amaryllidece. 



1. Anomala dorsalis, Fabricius, plate vii, figs. 5 and 50, dorsal 

 and lateral views and A. dorsalis, var. fusca, Brenske. Family Melo- 

 lonthidcB. Order Coleoptera. Plate vii, figs. 6 and 6a, dorsal and 

 lateral views* 



In June, 1899, the Superintendent of the Victoria Gardens, 

 Bombay, sent some melolonthine beetles, both larvae and imagines, 

 to the Museum, and noted that "They have been doing much damage 

 to the lilies in my garden. They attack one particular kind of 

 Crinum only, viz., C. latifolium. They come flying in large numbers 

 late in the evening and devour all the flowers most greedily, so that 

 in the morning there is not a single open flower left on any of the 

 plants. The larvae are found eating up the leaves, etc., of eucharis 

 lilies and tuberoses." Later on he notes that no more beetles could 

 be found as the Crinum has done flowering. In June, 1900, he 

 reported that the beetles had again appeared and were attacking the 

 Crinum flowers. 



As the beetles were new to the Museum collection they were for- 

 warded to Dr. E. Brenske, who identified them as Anomala dorsalis, 

 Fabricius, and A. dorsalis, var. fusca, Brenske ; they are figured on 

 plate vii, the former under figs. 5 and $a, the latter under figs. 6 and 

 6a, front and lateral views of each. 



