suitably enforced 



of all palms in the districts where cocoa-nut growing is practised will 

 annihilate the weevils without the assistance of other methods, and an 

 ordinance which does not provide for the destruction of the cohoon 

 palms is incomplete. These are cut down by planters, not necessarily 

 interested in cocoa-nut growing, who cannot fitly be included in the 

 clauses of an enactment passed in the interests of another class of the 

 community. It' it is necessary to ensure the dotiuelion of felled cohoon 

 palms some other means must be sought. 



VIII.— Systematic Notes. 

 In order to complete this account of the Palm Weevil, it is desirahle 

 to give the . thai species, together with a list 



" incidentally . 



ORDER. COLEOPTERA. 



FAMILY. LUCANIDiE. 



Passalus (Eriocnemis) tkidens, Perch. 



Wiedemann. Zool. Mag. II. p. 109. 

 Percheron. Mon. des Passales, p. 24, pi. 2, fig. 3. 

 (Vtelnau. Hist. Nat. II. p. 179. 



See also (15, 16). 



FAMILY. DYNASTIDiE. 

 Oryctes rhinoceros, Linn. 

 Limneus. Syst. Nat. 1. 2, p. 544. 

 Burmeister. Ha, 



Dohrn. Stett. Eut. Zi-it. XL I. p. 297. 

 Seei.lso (21,22,23,27,29,30). 



by the larvas of Orya 



