FAMILY CANTHARIDAE 



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CiSSITES. 



Cissites testaceus, Fabr. 



Reference.— Fiibr. Spec. Ins. i, 256 (1781). 



Habitat.— Rangoon, Burma; Calcutta. 



This insect is predaceous upon the carpenter-bee Xylocopa latipes,^ the 



beetle entering the tunnels in the wood and ovipositing 



Habits. in them. The grubs of the beetle 



feed upon those of the Xylocopa, 



pupating in the wood when full-grown. 



I took this insect in the tunnels of the carpenter- 

 bee in pyinkadu logs in Calcutta in 1903. The logs 

 were imported from Rangoon a short time previously, 

 and portions of them were kept under my observa- 

 tion at the Indian Museum during the year {vide 

 Xylocopa, vol. ii). 



Green has recorded * a similar habit in the case of 

 Cissites debyi, which oviposits in the galleries of 

 Xylocopa tenuiscapa, Westw. 



Fio. 176. 



Cissites testaceus, 



Fabr. Burma. 



HOLOPELTIS. 

 Holopeltis 3-cornis, Fairm. 



Reference.— Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxviii, 22 (1894). 



Habitat.— Salween River, Tenasserim. 



Tree Infested.— 5c///6'/c/zt'r^i trijuga. Kowloon Island, Salween River. 



Beetle.-Small, elongate-ovate, Hat. Black. Two small teeth on upper part of head, 



with a lar-er upcurved brown one on lower part of front, giving the beetle a resemblance to 



a miniature Oryctes rhinoceros {vide p. 88). Prothorax wider than 



Description. long, deeply emarginate on anterior edge, sides curved, widest behmd, 



with an irregular depression on each side of disk just above base ; very 



finely punctate. Elytra moderately convex, sides rounded and flattened horizontally on 



margin, the flattened part brown ; finely striate-punctate, the striations and punctures almost 



obsolete medianly. Under-surface dark brown, black medianly, finely punctate. Legs brown. 



Length, 5 mm. to 5.5 mm. 



I found this small beetle in fair numbers beneath the bark of a standing 



green Schleichcra trijiiga tree. The insects appeared to 



Life History. be feeding on the sap of the tree. I do not know the 



larval form. The mature beetles were taken on 9 March 



1905 on Kowloon Island in the Salween River in Tenasserim. 



* Green, Ent. Mon. Mag: 232, 190: 



