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ducement for plantations ^ CastiUoa rubber. ^ years^o^on 
Jamaica.”— "E d. 
SOME CAMPHOR INSECTS. 
The following insects have been noted as attacking Camphor 
plants in the Government Experimental Gardens at Batu T.ga 
such abundance as to deserve the term pest . 
i A beetle identified as Hypomeces near " rustica It is a 
blackish, greyish or bronzy weevil about ^1 » - 
^■esssskss 
in a club. 
Under a microscope or even a good lens, 1 ^ w 7t h°wh ite hai r s 
seen to be covered masses 
give* the beetle on the 
trees the look of being powdered thickly with yellow. 
The lees are covered with white hairs and are divided into three 
movable parts, The femora or thigte^the tMae OT^hanks^nd tarsi^or 
feet, of apparently four joints. The ttagta u* * shan^ oneofthe 
equal in length about A wc _ e whic h is inserted the 
S j: growing side by side. 
This insect, when disturbed, 
d^er They eatcamphor'and” other leaves voraciously in the 
adult stage. I have not yet traced their life history. 
