BY HENRY TRTON. 
23 
INSECT PESTS IN THE STORE. 
BY 
Henry Tryon; 
(Bead on 18th August, 1892: vide ** Queoislander,** 27th August, 1892). 
[Note , — This paper related to Anobium paniceum, Sitophilus 
oryzse, Gnathocerus cornuta, Tenebrioides mauritanicus, &c., 
found feeding upon Rice paper. — En.] 
CRYPTOL^MUS MONTROUZIERI, OR THE SCALE 
INSECTS’ ENEMY. 
BY 
Henry Tryon. 
(Bead on 1st September, 1892). 
The trunks of the handsome bunya trees growing along the 
river banks of our Botanical Gardens are at present conspicuously 
marked by snow-white spots and blotches. On examination this 
will be found to be due to the presence of small active six-footed 
grubs, resembling what all horticulturists recognise as “mealy 
bugs,” measuring about Jin. in length, and covered above with 
six rows of contiguous opaq^ue white mealy appendages, which 
being of the nature of secreted matter are easily removable. 
Clusters of those grubs, in crannies in the bark, in a quiescent 
condition, will also be encountered, and amongst them some 
similarly clothed pupte. Creeping slowly amongst the scales of 
the trunk surface will also be noticed small oval beetles, measur- 
ing about Jin. in length and Jin. in breadth, having the head, 
the corselet, the extremity of the wing covers, and the under 
surface in part, red ; whilst the greater portion of the wing 
covers above and the thorax beneath is black. The whole 
surface is also finely punctured, and thickly clothed with close 
greyish pubescence. Transferring our observations to the foliage 
jof the bunya, it will be noticed that these snow-white grubs and 
the less conspicuous beetles, are wandering amongst it also ; and 
further examination will reveal the fact that their attention 
