REMARKS ON INJURIOUS AND BENEFICIAL INSECTS 19 



The large 

 ground-beetle 

 An tli i a sexguttata 

 (p. 95) feeds 

 upon the cater- 

 pillars of the 

 hawk moth 

 Pseudosphinx in 

 Berar and Bom- 

 bay, upon Sinoxy- 

 lon (p. 173), and 

 probably upon 

 other insects. 



A species of 

 Bothrideres (p. 

 112) preys upon 

 the grubs of 

 the cerambyx 

 beetle Hoplo- 

 cer a in by x in 

 Assam, whilst 

 another destroys 

 the wood-borer 

 Sinoxylon, as also 

 do species of 

 Alindria (p. 114) 

 and Mclambia 



(P- 114)- 



Another 



co 1 eo pt erous 

 genus, Hectar- 

 thrum (p. 1 1 6), 

 preys upon the 

 Sinoxylon wood- 

 borers in the Cen- 

 tral Provinces, 

 upon platypid 

 borers (p. 61 1 ) 

 and termites in 

 M i I u i .s ti ;i n d 

 Anogeissus in 

 Lower Burma, 

 and upon the J)i- 

 nodenis bamboo- 

 borers (p. 140). 





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FIG. 12. Portion of stem of a dead /W/vr-vVi: sp., showing the targe 

 pupating chambers in the wood of the elater Alans ph ditlns, and 

 the tunnels and entrance bores of a platypid beetle in the tim 



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