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FAMILY CARABIDAE 



the Sinoxylon in company with species oi Alindria (p. 114) 

 and the carabid Morio subconvexiis. I have not taken the 

 larvae of the beetle. It is probable that they also live 

 beneath the bark of the tree, and possibly enter the 

 tunnels of the bostrychids and prey upon the larvae of 

 the latter (p. 174). 



Morio subconvexus, Chand. 

 Habitat.— Changa Manga, Punjab. 



Fig. 60. — Scarites 

 bengalensis, Dej. 

 Changa Manga. 



Habits.— The beetle preys upon the bostrychid wood-borer Sinoxylon 

 anale. I took the insect in company with other predaceous beetles beneath the 

 bark of a large sissoo-tree badly attacked by the Sinoxylon. I have not 

 taken the larvae, but imagine that they will be found in the burrows of the 

 bostrychid larvae (p. 174). 



Amblystomus magnus, Bates. 

 Habitat.— Katha, Upper Burma. 

 Tree Infested.— Teak {Tectona grandis). Mohnyin 

 Forest, Katha, Upper Burma. 



Beetle.— Small black, very shining, with a striped pygidium. Legs 

 and antennae brown. Head and thorax very finely punctate. Elytra 

 striate, the intervals smooth. Length, 5 mm. 



I took a specimen of this carabid from beneath the 



bark of a large girdled standing teak-tree in the Kadu 



depot in the Mohnyin Forest up in Katha. It is the only 



Fig. 6\.—Aml>lysto- specimen of the insect I have taken. 

 miis magHJis, Bates. 

 Katha. 



Tachyta nietneri, Schaum. 



Reference.— Schaum.BerL Zeit. p. 88 (1863). 



Habitat.— Tons Valley, 2,300 ft., North-West Hima- 

 laya ; Tharrawaddy, Lower Burma. 



Trees Infested.— Chir V\ne{Pinuslongi folia) : Thadiar, 

 Tons Valley; Anogeissus latifolia : Konbilin Forest, Thar- 

 rawaddy, Lower Burma. 



Beetle.— Very small, dark brown, shiniijg ; head triangular, with 

 long curved black mandibles. Thorax smooth, with a longitudinal 

 medium impression. Elytra smooth, finely striate. Legs and antennae 

 brown. Length, 2 mm. to 2.2 mm. 



Larva.— Twelve segments, yellow in colour except first, which is 

 brown, and the anterior portion of second, which is yellowish brown. 

 Head square, large, black, provided with a pair of stout calliper- 



FiG. 62. -Tachyta 



iiietneri, Schaum. 



N.W. Himalaya ; 



Burma. 



