Part I. ] 
Stebbing : Note on the Lac Insect. 
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upon which the lac insect feeds with the locahties in which they grow 
and the quahty of the lac produced upon the different species : — 
Lac- YIELDING Trees. 
[N.B — The most important and valuable lac-yielding trees are printed in capitals.] 
Name of tree. 
Vernacular j 
names. 
Localities in 
which the lac 
insect feeds upon 
the tree or 
trees. 
Abundance ot 
lac produced. 
Quality of 
lac produced. 
1. Acacia arabica . 
Babul, Kikar 
Sind, Rajputana, 
Guzerat, Pun- 
jab, ^Berar. 
Yields large 
quantities of 
lac. 
2. Acacia Catechu . 
Khair . 
United Provin- 
ces, Central 
Provinces. 
3. Albizzia Lebbek 
Sirns, Sirts, 
Siras. 
Punjab, Sind, 
Bombay, Uni- 
ted Provinces, 
Upper Burma. 
4. Albizzia lebbek- 
oides. 
•• 
Burma. 
5. Albizzia lucida . 
Silkori 
Bengal. 
6. Aleurites moluc- 
cana. 
Akrot . 
Punjab. 
7 Anona squamosa 
Ata 
Punjab, Lower 
Burma. 
8. Artocarpus in- 
tegrifolia. 
9. Bauhinia sp. 
Burma. 
Do. 
10. BUTEA FRON- 
DOSA. 
Dhak, Palas, 
Khnnkar, 
Pankhin 
Khakhra, 
CMulha, 
Muru. 
Sind, Bengal, 
Berar, Pun- 
jab, Central 
Provinces, Cen- 
tral India, 
Rajputana, por- 
tions of the 
United Pro- 
vinces, South 
India and 
Burma. 
Yields large 
quantities of 
lac, especial- 
j ly in the 
1 United Pro- 
vinces, Cen- 
tral Pro- 
vinces and 
Bengal. 
The lac pro- 
duced on this 
tree is second 
only to that 
of the Schlei- 
chera trijuga. 
