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  undamaged 
  seeds. 
  The 
  beetle 
  instinctively 
  avoids 
  the 
  radicle 
  and 
  

   plumule 
  when 
  boring, 
  confining 
  it^ 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  food-stuff 
  stored 
  

   in 
  the 
  cotyledon, 
  and 
  of 
  this 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  store 
  great 
  enough 
  to 
  satisfy 
  the 
  

   plant 
  after 
  the 
  ravages 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  beetle. 
  The 
  only 
  danger 
  is 
  that 
  if 
  

   the 
  weather 
  be 
  cold 
  and 
  the 
  seed 
  long 
  in 
  germinating, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  

   possibility 
  of 
  decay 
  setting 
  in, 
  for 
  bacteria 
  or 
  fungi 
  would 
  have 
  easy 
  

   access 
  through 
  the 
  wounded 
  testa. 
  

  

  WuNN 
  (H.). 
  Im 
  Unterelsass 
  und 
  in 
  der 
  angrenzenden 
  Rheinpfalz 
  fest- 
  

   gestellte 
  Cocciden. 
  [Coccids 
  recorded 
  from 
  Lower 
  Alsace 
  and 
  the 
  

   adjoining 
  Rhine 
  Palatinate.]— 
  Zei^ 
  ivissen. 
  InsektenbioL, 
  Berlin, 
  

   ix, 
  nos. 
  8-9, 
  1st 
  Sept. 
  1913, 
  pp. 
  255-258. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Coccidae, 
  known 
  from 
  the 
  area 
  

   indicated, 
  and 
  with 
  each 
  species 
  is 
  given 
  a 
  very 
  full 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  

   localities 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  found, 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  plants 
  on 
  which 
  it 
  has 
  

   occurred. 
  The 
  list 
  is 
  being 
  published 
  in 
  instalments. 
  

  

  XjThe 
  Fertilisation 
  of 
  Cacao. 
  — 
  Gardens 
  Bulletin, 
  Straits 
  Settlement, 
  

   Singapore, 
  i, 
  no. 
  6, 
  15th 
  Dec. 
  .1913, 
  p. 
  195. 
  

  

  The 
  number 
  of 
  cicao 
  pods 
  formed 
  on 
  a 
  tree 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  out 
  of 
  

   proportion 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  flowers 
  produced. 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  A. 
  Jones, 
  who 
  

   has 
  experimented 
  to 
  find 
  the 
  reason 
  of 
  this, 
  has 
  noticed 
  that 
  if 
  the 
  

   •common 
  red 
  ants 
  which 
  tend 
  green 
  fly 
  about 
  the 
  flowers 
  are 
  kept 
  away, 
  

   no 
  pollination 
  results. 
  There 
  is, 
  however, 
  no 
  positive 
  evidence 
  to 
  show 
  

   that 
  red 
  ants 
  have 
  anything 
  to 
  do 
  with 
  the 
  fertility 
  of 
  the 
  flowers. 
  

  

  BuRKiLL 
  (I. 
  H.). 
  Chrome 
  gracilis, 
  a 
  Butterfly 
  destructive 
  to 
  Palms. 
  — 
  

  

  Gardens 
  Bulletin, 
  Straits 
  Settlements, 
  Singapore, 
  i, 
  no. 
  6, 
  15th 
  Dec. 
  

   1913, 
  pp. 
  188-186. 
  

  

  The 
  caterpillar 
  of 
  Chrome 
  gracilis, 
  Butl. 
  (Amathusiinae) 
  is 
  social 
  in 
  

   its 
  habits, 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  to 
  damage 
  Rhopaloblaste 
  palms. 
  The 
  

   caterpillars, 
  when 
  both 
  feeding 
  and 
  resting, 
  are 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  

   surface 
  of 
  the 
  leaf, 
  feeding 
  only 
  at 
  night. 
  

  

  BuRKiLL 
  (I. 
  H.). 
  The 
  Coconut 
  Beetles, 
  Oryctes 
  rhinoceros 
  and 
  Rhyn- 
  

   chophorus 
  ferrugineus. 
  — 
  Gardens 
  Bulletin, 
  Straits 
  Settlements, 
  

   Singapore, 
  i, 
  no. 
  6, 
  15th 
  Dec. 
  1913, 
  pp. 
  176-188. 
  

  

  The 
  two 
  beetles 
  legislated 
  against 
  in 
  the 
  Straits 
  Settlements 
  are 
  

   Oryctes 
  rhinoceros 
  and 
  Rhynchophorus 
  ferrugineus. 
  The 
  first 
  is 
  the 
  

   commoner, 
  but 
  individually 
  less 
  destructive 
  ; 
  it 
  feeds 
  as 
  an 
  adult 
  in 
  

   the 
  stems 
  of 
  living 
  palms, 
  generally 
  coconut 
  palms, 
  tunnelling 
  into 
  the 
  

   softer 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  stem 
  ; 
  it 
  may 
  lay 
  its 
  eggs 
  in 
  these 
  tunnels, 
  but 
  

   usually 
  it 
  does 
  so 
  in 
  decaying 
  vegetable 
  matter, 
  sawdust, 
  etc., 
  and 
  

   especially 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  parts 
  of 
  dead 
  palm 
  trunks. 
  The 
  Palm 
  Weevil 
  

   {R. 
  ferrugineus) 
  lays 
  its 
  eggs 
  on 
  the 
  coconut 
  trees, 
  making 
  a 
  small 
  hole 
  

   for 
  each 
  egg 
  with 
  its 
  long 
  snout. 
  The 
  burrows 
  of 
  the 
  Rhinoceros 
  

   Beetle 
  (0. 
  rhinoceros) 
  give 
  the 
  Palm 
  Weevil 
  access 
  to 
  the 
  inside 
  of 
  the 
  

   palm, 
  of 
  which 
  full 
  advantage 
  is 
  usually 
  taken. 
  The 
  eggs 
  give 
  rise 
  to 
  

  

  