REMARKS ON INJURIOUS AND BENEFICIAL INSECTS 19 



The larf^e 

 ground -beet Ic 

 Anthia sexgnttata 

 (p. 95) feeds 

 upon the cater- 

 piUars of the 

 hawk moth 

 Pseudosphinx in 

 Berar and Bom- 

 bay, upon Sinoxy- 

 lon (p. 173), and 

 probably upon 

 other insects. 



A species of 

 Bothrideres (p, 

 112) preys upon 

 the grubs of 

 the cerambyx 

 beetle Hoplo- 

 cer aniby X in 

 Assam, whilst 

 another destroys 

 the wood-borer 

 Sinoxylon, as also 

 do species of 

 Alindria (p. 114) 

 and Mclanibia 

 (p. 114). 



Another 

 c o 1 eo pt erous 

 genus, Hectar- 

 thi'uni (p. 116), 

 preys upon the 

 Sinoxylon wood- 

 borers in the Cen- 

 tral Provinces, 

 upon platypid 

 borers (p. 611) 

 and termites in 

 M i I u i s a and 

 Anogeissus in 

 Lower Burma, 

 and upon the Di- 

 noderus bamboo- 

 borers (p. 140). 



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Fig. 12. — I'uiiuiii (I siein nfi dead Ihilbcrgia sp., showing the targe 

 pupating chambers in the wood of the elater Alaus pui/iclns, and 

 the tunnels and entrance bores of a platypid beetle in the timber. 



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