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Nine 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, inmost 
cases the plan adopted in the past will be continued. The total 
planting has been distributed as follows : — 
From nursery and at stake - 2,075,400 trees. 
From nurseries alone - - i ,895,705 „ 
At stake alone - - 3 72,000 „ 
Not stated - 100,000 „ 
Total... 4, 443, 105 trees. 
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 1st, 1903. 
GUNDA SIKKIMA. 
A Rambong 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 Sikkima, 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 English 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 
£ inc ,. on » ocre >' e ^ ow anf l woolly. Fore wings narrow at the 
base, dilated at the end and hooked at the tip, the edge waved 
lawn 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 
, e dul1 oran K e 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- 
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