Indian Museum Notes.Issued by the Trustees

The catepillars were found inside the stalk usually in the hollow of the straw above the node nearest to the ear. [...] In the case or the paddy borer which did some damage in the Bombay Presidency last year there was reason to suppose that the insect passed through a number of generations in the course of the year hybernatin in the self-sown paddy and large grasses around the paddy The success which has attended the experiments made by the United States Entmological Department in importing Vedatia beetles ( [...] The figure shows the various stages of the insect also much enlarged diagrams of the antenna and one of the legs of the imago. [...] The beetles were said to come from the buffalo dung which the cultivators were in the habit of putting into their paddy fields with the express object of rearing the insect in order to keep down the numbers It is difficult to see what connection of the destructive ricsapper. [...] This tends to confirm the supposition that the insect's life cycle is an annual one and that the eggs are laid in the autumn in the bark ; the caterpillars would thus have time to get through the bark before the sap mounts in the spring when they commence tunnelling into the heart of the wood.