COLEOPTERA SCOLYTID.E. 



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in a deeply cut pupal chamber. This beetle, unlike the preceding 

 species, is said not to confine itself to the borders of a pine wood, but 

 to be found deeper in its interior. 



"//, minor also bores into the pith of young pine shoots in tlie 

 same way as //. piniperda." ^ 



GenuA Phlceophthorus. 



Antennal whip five-jointed ; club of antennjB three-jointed and very 

 distinctly divided ; abdomen not raised towards apex. 



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Fig. 105.— il/rt/7«;!3s 0/ Phlceophthorus 

 rhododactylus on gorsc (whin) stem. 



Fig. lOti.— .!/((/ 7,1 Hi/s nj Phlcuophtliorus 

 lliod()(i.ic-tj Ills on hionm. 



Phlceophthorus rhododactylus (Marsh). 



This is one of our smallest British wood-feeding beetles, and is found 

 in gorse and broom stems. It is very common in Northumberland. 

 Fig. 105 represents the markings on whin and fig. 106 on broom. The 

 beetles may be looked for about the beginning of April, more especi- 

 ally on half-dead gorse stems, — those stems, in fact, which were alive 

 the previous year, but have been broken down by the heavy snows of 



1 Forest Protection, 1907. 

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