Note 1 — CHAP. VI
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: There is a paper in the Journ. of the Asiat. Society of Ceylon, May, 1845, by Mr. CAPPER, on the ravages perpetrated by these beetles. The writer had recently passed through several coco-nut plantations, "varying in extent from 20 to 150 acres, and about two to three years old; and in these he did not discover a single young tree untouched by the cooroominya."—P. 49.
2: Called also B. octo-maculatus; Lamia rubus, Fabr.
3: Leviticus, xi. 22.