Some Insects of Cycas in New Guinea.

Abstract

Not much was known in the past of insects associated with Cycas plants, which are quite often planted in tropical ornamental gardens. R. Lepesme (4) recorded the Coccid Hemiberlesia lataniae Sign. (4. p. 208), Duplachionaspis inday Banks (4. p. 238), Fiorinia fioriniae Targ.
(4. p. 242), Saissetia hemisphaerica Targ. (4. 251) and some weevils of the Genus Rhynchophorus as pests of Cycas. Kalshoven (3) mentioned two Coccids (Aonidiella aurantii Marsh, Leucaniodiaspis azadirachtae Gr.) a Lvcaenid (Catochrysops pandava Horsf.) and the Asiatic Rhinoceros Beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros L.) damaging Cycas in Indonesia.