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median mark and extending to the anterior margin; outside the black lines, on 
each side, a reddish-ochraceous one, twice as broad as the median and not extending 
to the anterior margin; external to these on each side, a broad pale-ochraceous 
or buff line, mixed with reddish-ocher at its outer edge and running imperceptibly 
into the extreme outer longitudinal black lines on the sides of the thorax. The 
black lines are irrorated with buff and have buff punctures anteriorly. 
The scutellum, between the bases of the elytra, is lancet-shaped, black, and 
shiny. 
The elytra have a ground color of reddish-ocher, with the following longitudinal 
markings: A series of 9 punctured lines, 5 of which reach the apex; a buff line 
on the sutural margin and a similar, although redder, space between the fourth 
and fifth and the sixth and seventh punctured lines. Each space is interrupted 
several times before it finally meets with the others near the apex of the elytron. 
The elytra bear near the base | and “}] and on the apical half 7] on the left 
and right, respectively. There is also a broad, black, uninterrupted band on the 
_ external margin, confluent with a similar one on the prothorax. In the male 
these black characters are more or less confluent. The apices of the wing covers 
are emarginate at the suture; the pygidium is truncate, with the sides gradually 
converging; the median portion of the ventral surface of the thorax and abdomen 
is black and glossy, with numerous spine-bearing punctures; the posterior 
margins of the meso- and metathorax are deeply notched; the fore coxe or 
first leg joints are almost contiguous, the interspace having a transverse suture. 
An elytron of the female is shown by Plate XI, fig. 5. 
The legs are stout and moderately long; the femora are slightly swollen at 
their apices; the tibiw of the middle legs are somewhat shorter than those of the 
fore and hind ones, and all are longitudinally ribbed with spine-bearing tubercles 
of minute size. The apices of all tibie bear a large tooth and two stout bristles. 
The 4-jointed tarsi are covered sparsely above and densely beneath with 
golden-brown hairs. The bidentate claws are long and graceful. These beetles 
have no constant external evidences of sex differentiation. (See Pl. XI, figs 2) 
showing hind legs. ) 
Remedies and preventives.—The same preventive measures and reme- 
dies apply in combating this insect as are recommended in the ease of 
the Asiatic palm weevil. The damage done by them is not by any means 
so extensive as that due to the other insect, but, nevertheless, it should, 
if possible, be prevented or stopped, as the tree is finally killed by the 
summation of the attacks of the various insects which it harbors. 
THE FOUR-SPOTTED COCONUT WEEVIL. 
The length of this beetle, exclusive of the snout, is 5 millimeters, and 
the width is 1.5 millimeters. It was found in the dead or decayed heart 
or the undeveloped leaves of a small 83-year-old coconut tree during a 
search for the rhinoceros beetle. It attacks only dead trees of a very 
small size and is met with only in coconuts. In addition to the adult 
beetles, the larvee and the pupe were secured in numbers. Plate IX, figs. 
1 and 2, shows the exit holes of the adults and the work of the larve in 
the interior of the tree. 
Egg.—The egg of this species is not known. It is probable that the beetles 
deposit their eggs on the sticky sides of their galleries in the trees, though close 
search failed to reveal them; but, as these places are also occupied by many 
