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beginning of January 1900, and fed voraciously from the middle 
of the month right on through February into March. Specimens 
I received, taken about the second week in March, consisted 
of both larvee and imagos of the pest, but I am unable to state 
whether both stages were present in January and February. 
Heavy rain during the latter part of February was said to have 
killed off the greater number of the insects, but a few were 
still to be found in the third week in March. 
This appears to be all that is at present known of the life 
history of this pest, which was described for the first time in 
1900. 
Areas from which reported. 
Distant in his description of the insect in the Transactions 
of the Entomological Society of London gives its habitat as 
the Naga Hills, Tavoy, and Karen Hills. To these must be 
now added the Central Provinces. 
Relations to the Forest. - 
This insect proved itself to be a most serious pest during 
the cold weather of 1901. There was a very general flowering 
of the bamboo, Dendrocalamus strictus, during this period 
throughout the Chanda district (it is said owing to the drought 
experienced during the year), overan area of some 1,200 square 
miles. Just before the seed began to ripen this bug appeared 
on the bamboos, swarming over every clump, and commenced 
sucking up the sap of the young newly forming seeds. Four to 
six. weeks were occupied in this way, with the result that the 
entire crop of seed was ruined over this area. Having finished 
off the bamboo seed, the insects were said to have descended 
on to the Faward crop then ripening in the fields and to have 
done damage to that. 
Protection ard Remedtes. 
It is not possible to prescribe remedies for this pcst ae 
“we know something more about its life history. 
Potuts in the life history requiring further observation :— 
1. Where and when the eggs are laid and length of 
time spent in this stage ? 
