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Lifehistory and Food. Not worked out in detail in India. The 

 beetles and larvae usually feed on dead animal matter, such as fish 

 manure. 



Status. Scarcely a pest as a rule. Usually rather beneficial as a 

 scavenger and the larva- have been found feeding on pupa; of 

 tlies breeding in tish manure. At times, however, the beetle is said 

 to be very destructive to silk-worm cocoons. 

 DERMESTES Sp. 



Dermestes sp. The smaller figure shows the 

 u.it ural sizi . (Original. I 



Distribution- Coimbatore. Probably throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory and Food. -Not known in detail. The beetle has been 

 bred from larvae found feeding on animal refuse in sparrows* nests. 

 Probably on any dead animal matter. 



BOSTRYCHID 1 

 SINOXYLON SUDANICUM, Lesne. 



Fig. 136. Sinoxy lott sudan icum. ["he smallei figure shows the 



natural ~i/i II h i 



Sinoxylon sudanicum, Lesne, .Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi : 15), [76, 



(1906), 503-504. f- 534: King,4th Rept. Wellcome Lab.. Vol.B,p. 14". 

 t. Q, t. 1. 



