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THE note by Mr. Distant in your number for October 30 (p. 684) may perhaps lead its readers to think that the insect which has lately been the subject of a report to the Ceylon Government has been wrongly identified by me as Helopeltis antonii, Sign. As that report will, however, before this have reached England, the matter will probably have been set right. I am not an entomologist, nor have I here the opportunity of reference to Signoret's original description or to other descriptive works; but the insect is, without any doubt at all, that which is well known—too well known—in Assam and in Java as Helopeltis. In the former country it is the destructive tea-bug or “mosquito-blight,” 1 and in the latter it is the notorious pest of the cinchona plantations.
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TRIMEN, H. The Cacao-Bug of Ceylon. Nature 31, 172 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031172b0
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