300 S< > M I-: SOUTH INDIAN INSEI rS, I U 



TRIB( >L1U.M I \M \\i:r\|. Hbst. 



( olydium castaneum, Herbst, Kafer, VII, 282, t. 112. t. [3 (1797 . 



Tribolium castaneum, Macleaj (1825); Blair, E MM. (1913), 222 

 224. 



Tribolium fermgineum, auct. (nee. Fabr.) ; Chittenden, I'.SA. 

 Km. Bull. No. 4; Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Pests, p. 253. I. 307, bid. Ins. 

 Life, p. 33 s . '■ 215. 



1 I i iboliuiit casta 



natural si/ 



The small figure sli..» 5 the 

 11 iritfinal.l 



Distribution. Throughout Southern India ; all the year round. 



Lifehistory. The minute white eggs are laid, usually thrust into 

 1 lacks, on the surface ol stored seeds or of the receptacles in which 

 these arc contained. The full-fed larva is about 5 mm. long, 

 whitish-brown, with darker legs and a pair of anal spines. The 

 pupa is white and naked and the pupal Stage lasts for 4 or 5 days. 

 The beetles also Iced on stored substam es 



Food. Stored pulses, grain, Hour, dried insects, etc. 



Status. A -crious pest of stored produ< ts, not onlj bj the actual 

 quantitj eaten but on accounl oi the extremely nauseous smell and 

 taste which it communicates to infected substances. 



Control. Fumigation and subsequent storage in Insect-prool 

 1 eceptacles. 



( ( ism PHI s DEPRESS! S, Fb. 



Lampyris depressa, Fab., Spec. Ins.. I.. 254 (1781). 



Cossyphus depressus, Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 33a t. 21, t. 4. 



Distribution. Godavari, Bangalore, Bellary, Coimbatore. Maj 

 to July and September to November. Probablj throughout 

 Southern India. 



