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{ Other Noxious Grubs having the same habits. } 
MELOLONTHA or LACHNOSTERNA SP. (‘WHITE 
GRUBS”.) 
Reference :—Stebbing, Inj. Ins. Ind. For., p. 35. 
Classification:—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scarabeide. Sub- 
Family, Melolonthini. 
Description of Larva. 
The /arva is a large, heavy, yellowish-white, curved grub, the 
posterior segments of which are swollen up ina bag-shaped 
manner, being black in colour, The head is light brown, bear: 
ing two antennz and a pair of long curved exceedingly power. 
ful mandibles. Length 14 to 2 inches, See Pl, VI, fig. 3. 
Only the larva has at present been found. 
information at present known concerning the tnsect. 
These grubs were discovered by the writer killing off deodar 
seedlings in July 1991 in the Taranda forest, Bashahr divi- 
sion, Punjab. This forest had been cut over in 1898 and sow- 
ings were made in patches in February 1901, those made the 
previous year having failed. On inspecting the patches of 
young seedlings numbers were found lying dying or dead on the 
surface, cut through at their bases, whilst portions of others 
were found protruding from largish holes visible on the surface of 
the turned over soil. The following is a description of one patch 
which may be taken as typical of what was occurring in many 
of them, the state of affairs accounting probably for the failure of 
the young plants in previous years :—There were probably 25 
seedlings originally in the patch. At the time of inspection five 
green uncut ones were ali that remained standing in the soil. 
Most had been cut off either at the apex of the stalk just below 
the crown of needles or some way down the stalk but above 
the ground. These cut seedlings had been in some cases par- 
tially eaten or a few needles only had been consumed and then 
