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Indian Forest Records. 
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Roly poms shoreae , on 21st and 22nd January 1915. C. F. C. B. Coll. 
[Tubes Prionini, 1, 2, 3.] One larva was found at a depth of one foot 
in an earthen cell, about two inches long, made of fragments of 
rotten wood cemented together with mud; the inside of the cell was 
lined with a thin smooth film of mud. 
2. In March 1915 specimens of larvae [RRD. 4] were sent by the 
Conservator of Forests, Bengal, with the following note. ee A clump of 
Sissoo was noticed (at Chilarpata, S. Borojhar Range, Buxa Division) 
in which most of the trees were dead. The roots of the two trees (one 
recently dead and the other not yet killed) were opened up to a depth 
of 5 feet. No trace of root fungus was found on the roots of either of 
the trees but a number of larvae were found in the soil round the roots 
and some of them were in the roots of the dead trees. ” 
Further specimens were despatched from this locality from a dead 
sissoo tree, girth 5'—1", on 6th November 1915 [RRD. 54]. One 
larva arrived alive and an attempt was made to breed it out in rotten 
sissoo wood and earth. The insectary records [BCR. 31] are as follows. 
Between the 11th November and 23rd, the larva tunnelled irregularly 
in the soil, eventually confining its movements to circumambulation at 
the bottom of the glass jar in which it was closed. On the 25th January 
1916, it was observed motionless at the bottom of the jar; on the 17 th 
April it was noticed to have formed a cell in the soil and was apparently 
about to pupate. On the 3rd May it was found dead. 
Seven more specimens were obtained from the roots of a sissoo, girth 
4'—4", in the same locality on the 20th January 1916 and despatched to 
Dehra Dun [RRD. 79]. Five larvae arrived in a living condition; 
they were kept under observation in the insectary in jars of earth and 
rotten wood [BCR. 49]. On the 17th April two larvae were found 
dead and by the 3rd May the remainder had died. Parasitic mites were 
numerous in this experiment. 
3. In November 1915 a full grown larva of apparently the same 
species was taken by the Divisional Forest Officer, Gorakhpur, U. P., 
in a cell composed of fibres of rotten wood lined smoothly with a mud 
at the roots of a dying sal tree [RRD. 57]. The larva was kept under 
observation in the insectary [BCR. 32] under slightly different condi¬ 
tions. From the 23rd November to 20th December the larva was kept 
in an artificial chamber and the soil was constantly moistened. As 
mould developed it was transferred to dryer earth ; during January the 
larva moved about on the surface of the soil without attempting to burrow 
and eventually becoming quiescent, died on the 12th April 1916. 
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