318 
Scale insects (Coccidae) do not seem to liave done much 
liann in Ceylon. A bagworm is also mentioned as attack- 
ing the leaves, but no caterpillar seems to actually like 
Hevea leaves, though occasionally a few having exhausted 
their food plant will have a try at the Para rubber trees. 
The slugs in Ceylon apparently confine their attentions to 
the latex in the wounds of the tree. One given a saucer of 
latex drank it for ten minutes and was none the worse. 
Here they attack the leaf buds of the trees even climbing 
up to the top of the big trees. 
A REMARKABLY PROLIFIC COCONUT. 
Plate II. 
With this number* we give a photograph of an exceed- 
ingly prolific coconut tree grown on Klanang Estate, Jugra 
in Selangor. The tree is only eleven years old and the total 
number of nuts on the tree at the time at which the photo- 
graph was taken was more than three hundred and sixty. 
I imagine that there are few coconut trees that can beat this 
record. 
The coconut industry is one of the most important and 
valuable ones, and it is gratifying to be able to show that 
it is not only in rubber that the Malay Peninsula comes well 
to the front. 
For the photograph and notes on this remarkable tree 
we are indebted to Mr. Gallagher. 
Ed. 
REPORT OF THE WELLCOME RESEARCH 
LABORATORIES AT KHARTOUM. 
(Review.) 
We have received a copy of the third Report of the 
Wellcome Research Laboratories of the Gordon Memorial 
College Khartoum a really magnificent piece of work re- 
flecting the greatest credit on the Director Dr. Andrew 
Balfour and his stall. The book contains 150 pages and is 
beautifully illustrated with photographs and colored draw- 
ings. The objects of the Laboratory are given briefly in a 
separate slip with the book. They are to promote technical 
