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APPENDIX. 



The following insect should be included in the Tenebrionidae (p. 232). 



Palorus. 

 Palorus minor, Waterhouse. 



Reference.— Waterhouse, Ami. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiv, 71 (1894). 



Habitat.^C al c ut ta . 

 Tree Attacked. — Siris 



[Albizzia lebhek). Royal Botanic Gardens, 



Calcutta. 



Beetle.— Elongate, cylindrical. Dark red-brown, tibiae and 

 tarsi yellowish red. Head smooth, flat, tinely rugose, with an 



elevate longitudinal ridge just above the 

 Description. mouth. Prothorax longer than broad, apex 



rounded, the apical third with strong trans- 

 verse asperations changing to transverse striae on disk medianly ; 

 surface punctate and smooth on posterior half. Elytra not one and a 

 half times as long as prothorax ; striate-punctate, the punctures shallow 

 and rather large on disk, smaller laterally ; declivity abrupt, strongly 

 set with asperations and pointed tubercles and sparse spiny setae. 

 Length, about 2 mm. (Description {>;iihi) from a poor specimen.) 



Fig. 401. — Palorus 

 minor ^ Waterhouse, 

 in Albizzia lebbek. 

 Calcutta. 



I cut out a single dead individual of this tenebrionid from a gallery in 

 the wood of a dead siris-tree in the Botanic Gardens 

 Life History. j^^ Calcutta towards the end of April 1903. I know 



nothing further about the insect. 



Xyleborus noxius, Sampson, sp. nov. 



Described on pp. 598-600. 



This insect appears to be also one of the Andamans padauk (Pteyocarpus 

 dalbergioides) boring beetles. It has been found tunnelling into the wood in 

 a manner similar to that described under Xylebonis adumbvatus (p. 6oi) and 

 A', lacvinscidus (p. 602). 



Xyleborus nilgirensis, Hagedorn. 



Habitat. — Andaman Islands. 



Tree Attacked.— Padauk {Ptcvocarpus dcdbcrgioides). Andamans. 



It has quite recently come to my knowledge that specimens of a 

 Xyleborus identified as Hagedorn 's nilgirensis have been taken from padauk 

 wood in the Andamans. The insects were reported as tunnelling down into 

 the hard timber. 



