jpART III."] Beeson: Beehole Borer of Teak. 
Seubert [1902] in a postscript to Salverda’s note on the insect pests 
of teak plantations in Java records Spathodea campanulata, Beauv., 
a tropical African tree largely cultivated in the East, as a host of 
Duomitus ceramicus. Beekman [1919, p. 12] however, points out that 
the former’s observation has not yet been confirmed from any other 
source. The reviewer of “ Indian Forest Insects ” [Jour. Bom. Nat. 
Hist. Soc., xxiii, 1915, p. 765.] says that “ Duomitus ceramicus also 
attacks fig trees of many species,” but he subsequently informed the 
Forest Zoologist that this statement is incorrect. 
The genus Duomitus is essentially a wood-boring genus ; the food- 
plants of known species are:— 
armstrongi, Hamps. Coffee in the Gold Coast, [Hampson, 1914, 
p. 245.] 
capensis, Baker. Castor oil plant in Zanzibar, [Aders, 1916, 
p. 49]; Cassia didimobotrya in Brit. E. Africa, [Deakin, 1916, 
p. 244.] 
leuconolus , Wlk. Cassia nodosa in India, [Stebbing, 1902, p. 428] 
Cassia grandis in Ceylon, [Speyer, 1918, p. 10.] 
lituratus , Don., Ficus spp. in Australia, [Seitz., 1912, p. 418.]. 
punctifer, Hamps. Achras sapota , Anona muricata, Cinamomum 
camphora, Citrus spp., Codiaeum spp., Gliricida maculata , 
Ipomoea spp., Malphigia glabra , Pithecolobium saman , Tecoma 
leucoxylon, in the Lesser Antilles, [Agric. News. Barbadoes, 
1914.] 
strix, L., Agati grandiflora in Celebes, [Suellen, 1876, p. 22.] 
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