FAMILIES COCCINELLIDAE AND ENDOMYCHIDAE 125 

 Vedalia gu6rinii, Crotch. 



References. — Crotch, Rev. Coccinell. p. 282 (1874); Coccinella sp. Stebbing, Depart. Notes, p. 324. 



Habitat. — Siwaliks and United Provinces Terai areas. Also reported 

 from Pondicherry (Guerin). 



Habits. — This Vedalia preys upon the sal scale insect Monophlebus 

 stehhingi, which infests the sal-trees in the Siwaliks and United Provinces 

 Terai forests. The Vedalia swarms in large numbers when the scale 

 insect is abundant in the trees. The egg, larval, pupal, and beetle stages of 

 the coccinellid are known. 



Vedalia fumida, var. roseipennis. 



References.— i?ocio/ia/Mmic/rt, Muls. Spec. p. 904, 4; Epilachna arethusa, Muls. Op. iii, p. 126; testicolor, 

 Muls. Op. iii, p. 127; Rodolia roseipennis, Muls. Spec. p. 904, 5; Rodolia chermesiana, Muls. Spec. 

 p. 905, 6; Crotch, Rev. Coccinell. 1874; Ind. Mxis. Notes, iv, i, 27 ; 4, 218. 



Habitat. — Siwaliks, North India. Also reported from Bengal (Deyrolle). 



Habits. — This beetle is found in company with Vedalia gneriuii, preying 

 upon the Monophlebus stehbingi scale insect in the Siwaliks sal forests. It is 

 not, however, so abundant as its companion. It has also been reported as 

 feeding upon the scale I eery a aegyptiaca. 



Vedalia sp. 



Reference. — Stebbing, Ind. Mas. Notes, vi, p. 62. 



Habitat. — Lahore, Punjab ; Bareilly. 



Habits. — This coccinellid has been taken preying upon the scale insect 

 Monophlebus stebbingi, var. mangiferae, which infests the mango-trees in the 

 Shaliman Gardens at Lahore, in the Punjab, and in the Bareilly Gardens. 



It may possibly be identical with Aulis bestita, Muls., found feeding 

 upon Monophlebus on mango-trees, and reported by Lefroy in Mem. Agric. 

 Dept. India, vol. ii, no. vii. 



Family ENDOMYCHIDAE. 



A family of curiously shaped beetles with rather long antennae, which 

 end in a comparatively large three-jointed club. The tarsi appear to be 

 three-jointed, the last two joints being broad. 



The beetles are sometimes brightly coloured, or have bright-coloured 

 spots and markings on them. The insects are said to feed on fungus growths 

 and lichens. 



Little is known about the habits of the family in the forest. On one 

 occasion I took a mature beetle beneath the bark of a tree, and I found 

 another in the Charduar Rubber Plantation in Assam. 



