69 
Xine  companies  planted  from  nurseries  and  at  stake,  twelve  from 
nurseries  principally,  three  at  stake  alone,  and  two  fail  to  report. 
in  regard  to  transplanting  from  nurseries,  and  planting  seeds  at 
stake,  while  the  practice  of  the  different  companies  varies,  in  most 
cases  the  plan  adopted  in  the  past  will  be  continued.  The  total 
planting  has  been  distributed  as  follows  : — 
From  nursery  and  at  stake 
From  nurseries  alone 
At  stake  alone 
Not  stated  _ _ _ 100,000 
2,075,400  trees. 
‘,895,705  „ 
372,000  „ 
Total... 4, 443, 105  tree.s. 
To  give  an  idea  of  the  extent  of  the  preparation  made  for  future 
planting,  it  may  be  mentioned  that  nineteen  of  the  twenty-six  com- 
panies reported  having  in  nurseries  at  the  end  of  the  season  a total 
of  11,462,000  young  plants,  in  numbers  ranging  from  7,000  to 
2,000,000  each.  Two  companies  reported  no  nurseries,  having  com- 
pleted planting,  and  five  made  no  report.  The  India  Rubber  World 
of  February  ist,  igoj. 
GUNDA  SIKKIMA. 
A R.ambong  pest. 
Some  time  back  I received  some  leaves  of  rambong  [Ficus  elastica) 
from  Klang  among  which  was  the  pupa  of  a small  brown  moth,  the 
larvae  of  which  had  been  eating  the  leaves.  This  moth  I sent  to 
Sir  George  HampsON  of  the  British  Museum  who  named  it  Gun- 
da  Sikkinia,  a well  known  Indian  insect,  of  which  I can  find  no 
account  of  the  life  history. 
On  February  13th.  1901,  I got  also  from  Selangor,  some  cater- 
pillars which  had  been  devouring  the  leaves  of  the  same  tree. 
They  were  an  inch  long  smooth  and  hairless  entirely  of  a raw 
sienna  color,  darker  along  the  back.  The  head  rather  small,  the 
thoracic  segments  very  broad  and  abruptly  elevated  like  those  of 
the  Englisli  puss-caterpillar.  There  was  a curved  horn  on  the  tail 
like  that  of  a hawk-moth  caterpillar.  They  pupated  in  woolly 
coccoons,  and  developed  as  moths  an  inch  and  a half  across,  with 
short  curved  plumed  antennae,  and  very  woolly  legs.  The  thorax 
was  woolly  the  front  edge  yellowish  brown,  the  rest  hoary,  the  body 
I inch  long  ocre  yellow  and  woolly.  Fore  wings  narrow  at  the 
base,  dilated  at  the  end  and  hooked  at  the  tip,  the  edge  waved, 
fawn  color  with  a dark  > at  the  base  and  a broader  V'  in  the 
centre  with  a dark  olive  crenate  line  beyond,  outside  of  which  was 
a grey  patch  with  two  white  spots,  the  edge  olive  colour,  the  under 
side  dull  orange  with  two  brown  stripes  and  a white  spot.  '1  he 
lower  wings  pale  orange  with  three  wavy  brown  lines.  This  moth 
is  evidently  also  a species  of  Gunda,  but  I cannot  find  any  des- 
