1 68 Indian Museum Notes, [Vol. V. 



" Chinia, Maneria, and Rounda " varieties from the Saikpora police 

 station, also in the Jamni sub-division; "Maneria and Rounda '' 

 varieties from the Chakai outpost, Nawadih, " Shiti " variety in 

 Murshidabad; sugarcane from Mymensingh ; " Shamsara, Dhali and 

 Kajli" varieties at Kushtea in Nadia, where the disease is called 

 " Bonga" and " Berupoka •" " Khagra " variety at Noakhali ; u Kazla 

 and Dhalsundur " varieties in Pabna ; " Bhanda Mugi " variety at 

 Rangpur ; " Bhurli " variety (disease called "Lohi, Murari and 

 Ukhra "), "Chinia" variety disease called "Murari and Ukhra") at 

 Saran ; sugarcane in the Gopalgunge sub-division, and " Bhooli " 

 variety at the Sadar sub-division, both of Saran. 



The third species is the well-known beetle regarding which 

 Mr. E. C. Cotes, the First Assistant to the Superintendent, Indian 

 Museum, in 1888, wrote the report entitled "The Indian Wheat 

 and Rice Weevil, Calendra (Sitophilus) oryzse, Linn., " illustrated 

 by a plate of the insect in all its stages. References to it under its 

 better-known generic name Calendra will be found scattered over all 

 the volumes of " Indian Museum Notes/' It is figured on plate viii, 

 figs. 5, dorsal view, and 5 a, lateral view x 8. 



3. Prox. Ligyrus rugiceps, Lee. Family Scarabseidse. Order 

 Coleoptera. Plate vii, Figs. 7 and 7 a, dorsal and lateral views of 

 beetle. 



On 7th June, 1901, the Officiating Collector of Rangpur, Bengal, 

 forwarded to the Indian Museum, Calcutta, thirteen beetles of the 

 Family Scarabasidas which are new to the Museum collection and 

 are apparently allied to Ligyrus rugiceps, Leconte, together with 

 a copy of a report by the District Engineer, Rangpur, dated the 1st 

 June, 1901, in which it is stated that "The sugarcane crop in the 

 district is being fearfully devastated by an insect which eats the new 

 and tender shoots at the root of the cane underground two or three 

 inches below the surface just above the point from which the shoots 

 sprout up from the seed cane. They are not observed to attack the 

 older shoots which have become hard and formed into stems. Thev 

 are found to attack principally the plant canes, i.e., the sprouts of~ 

 newly planted seed canes, but not the ratoon sprouts, or a very few 

 of these. They abound largely in newly broken up virgin soil 

 several hundred acres of land where the canes sprouted up splendidly 

 have been, entirely destroyed and rendered barren. They have been 

 killed by digging up the earth round the roots of the plants in im- 

 mense numbers, but to no effect. The vernacular name for thi 

 insect is " gozra." The cultivators believe that the gozras will leave 

 the fields on heavy rain setting in, and that their abundance this 



