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SOME SOl'TH INDIAN l\>K< I >. ET< 



Distribution. Bellary, Coimbatore, Chingleput. Probably 

 throughout Southern India all the year round. 



Lifehistory. Not worked out in detail. Eggs are laid in dead 

 wood, probably in galleries tunnelled b\ the beetles. Larvae in 

 galleries in dead wood, in which the beetles also teed. Length Ol 

 life-cycle is not known. 



Food. Dry stems ol" Agathi, of Cambodia Cotton killed by Stem 

 Weevil, and in almost any dry wood that is not too hard. 



Shiliis. Attacks only dead wood and is hardly a pest as a rule 



except when it bores into furniture, etc. 



RHIZOPERTHA DOMINICA, Kb. 



Synodendron dominicum, Fab., Ent. Syst., I, pt. 2. p. 359 (1792). 

 Synodendron pusillum, Fab.. Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 156 (1798). 

 Rhizopertha dominica, Lesne. Ann. S.E. Fr. (1898), 332 ; Stebbing, 

 I.M.X., VI, 25 26; Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 316 ; Chittenden, U.S.A. 



Ent. Bull. 96, pt. 111. pp. 21) 47, IT. 7, 8. 



Fig. Ml.— Rhizopertha dominica. The smaller figure shows the 

 natural size. (I iriginal.) 



Distribution. Throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory. The white, elongate, pear-shaped eggs are laid 

 loosely and singly amongst the food of the larva.-, which hatch out 

 after about 10 days. The larva when full-grown is slightly less 

 than 3 mm. long, a white, fleshy grub swollen at either extremity 

 but more swollen .interiorly. The whole life-cycle is probably less 

 than two months. 



Food. Stored cholam and CUmbu ear-; also recorded from 

 stored wheat, paddy, flour, biscuits, etc. 



Status. Apparently a minor pest of stored products. 



Control.— Fumigation and keeping stored grain, etc., in insect- 

 proot receptacles. 



