Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . for it. In August 1907 a further communication on the subject was received,together with an excellent series of dried parts of attacked plants showingthe method of attack by the beetle. The photographs shown here weretaken from the valuable series of specimens prepared by Mr. B. B. following additional observations were recorded : The tender shoot ispunctured within an inch or two of its apex, and the juice is sucked out asit exudes. Marks of unsuccessful ringing are nearly always to be foundlower down on the shoot attacked
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . for it. In August 1907 a further communication on the subject was received,together with an excellent series of dried parts of attacked plants showingthe method of attack by the beetle. The photographs shown here weretaken from the valuable series of specimens prepared by Mr. B. B. following additional observations were recorded : The tender shoot ispunctured within an inch or two of its apex, and the juice is sucked out asit exudes. Marks of unsuccessful ringing are nearly always to be foundlower down on the shoot attacked (cf. pi. xxxi, xxxii, and xxxiv). The objectof this is not clear, unless it is done with a view to diminishing the flow ofsap at the apex. Nothing whatever is known of the life history of thisinsect; neither the larva nor the pupa has been discovered as yet. we have seen, Mr. Osmaston sa\ s that in the dry months fromNovember to March the greater number of the seedlings and saplings areable to put on a good shoot. In some cases, however, he states, the. (fl<Do > •* a II o o c - rt 4) •** ^ •s <* 31 - -c
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