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The following are the only species that have been noticed as 
doing damage, and in all cases the damage has been quite 
insignificant, and shown little tendency to spread. 
1. Eumeces squamosus . — A weevil about 2 hich long and 
covered with powdery scales of a greenish or yellowish tint, 
which are readily rubbed off, when the insect becomes of a dull 
black colour. The adults cause injury by .defoliating the trees, 
but the grubs are harmless. Described in the “ A grt cultural 
Bulletin ” for January and July, 1904. 
2. Anthribid s p . — A mottled grey and black beetle about i\ 
inch long, with antennae (in the male) more than twice the length 
of the body, but shorter than half the body in the female ; head 
of large size, elongated, and set at right angles to the body. 
Verv common in this country. A single specimen was caught 
emerging from the trunk of a Para tree, and others have been 
seen flying about plantations. The larvae of this family of tfbetles 
are normally feeders on wood. 
3. Epepeote : s luscus . — Size very variable from ^ to iij inch ; 
antennae more than twice the length of the body ; general colour 
blackish, mottled with pale cream, a velvety black spot on each 
shoulder, surrounded by a narrow cream line. A very common 
species, the larvae, him those of the majority of the Longicorns, 
feeding on wood. Found once on the trunk of a Para rubber tree. 
4. Clytanthus annularis. — (Longicorn). A narrow insect about 
4 to § inch long by inch or less broad; antennas filiform, not 
so long as the body; general colour mustard yellow varied with 
black. A common and wide-spread insect, found once ovipositing 
on the stems of Para seedlings. Somewhat closely allied to the 
coffee borer of Southern India. 
5. Aspidiotus up.— A scale insect apparently belonging to this 
genus has once been noted on Para, but nothing more has been 
heard of it. 
6. Small beetles of the families Bostrychidce _ and Scolytidce 
frequently attack the bark of Para rubber. Their efforts seem, 
however, to be frustrated by the lateX, which exuding from the 
wounds coagulates round the"head of the beetle and stops further 
progress. 
7. The larvae of a small moth, greyish-brown in colour with a 
pinkish tinge, and about § of an inch in spread, has sometimes 
been found feeding on Rambong and may possibly attack Para. 
The species appears to be closely allied to, if not, identical with, 
Rhodoueura myrsusalis found in Brazil, Natal, India, Ceylon, 
Burma and Borneo. The food plants in this country are species 
of Palaquium (getah taban) in whose rolled-up leaves the larva; 
pupate, and the trees are damaged considerably both in a wild 
and cultivated state. The rigid leaves of Ficus elastica, however, 
are not quite suited to the habits of the larvse, and the damage at 
present effected is hardly noticeable. 
