FAMILY NITIDULIDAE 



CARPOPHILUS. 



Several minute species of the genus are commonly found in trees and 

 bamboos in the forests. 



Carpophilus hemipterus, Linn. var. 



REFERENCE. Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 565. 



Habitat. Dehra Dun and North India gene- 

 rally. Mandla, Central Provinces. 



Trees Infested. Bamboo (Dendrocalamus stric- 

 tus), Buchanania latifolia : Dehra Dun ; Sal 

 j (Shorea robusta] : Mandla. 



Beetle. Small. Head black ; prothorax and pygidium 

 brownish black ; elytra yellow with a brown patch in centre 

 of each. Head and prothorax punctate. Scutellum large. 

 Elytra short, leaving exposed several segments of body ; finely 



punctate. Length, 4 mm. 

 FIG. 71. Carpophilus 



hemipterus, var. N. India Larva. Elongate, curved, but slightly corrugated, with 



and Central Provinces. a fairly-developed head and a dorsal prothoracic shield, 



three pairs of jointed legs on the thorax ; abdominal segments taper posteriorly, the last 

 ending in two processes. 



Student Littlewood, of the Dehra Dun Forest School, took a number of 

 these beetles sucking the sap oozing from newly blazed 

 Life History. places on Buchanania latifolia trees in February 1902 in 

 the Dun forests. In April 1909 I found the beetle feed- 

 ing on the sap at the cut surfaces of logs and stumps of newly felled sal-trees 

 in Mandla, in the Central Provinces. 



This beetle is also often found in drying or dead fruits and seeds of 

 trees, and in the tunnels of Sinoxylon and other bamboo-borers, whilst the 

 grub is a common occupant of the inner surface of the spathes of the 

 Dendrocalamus bamboo in North India. 



Carpophilus mutilatus, Erichs. 



REFERENCE. Erichs. Deutsche Zeitschr. iv, p. 258. 



Habitat. Siwaliks, North India. 



Tree Infested. Buchanania latifolia. Dun Forests. 



Beetle. Elongate. Brown, shining. Head narrower than prothorax, punctate. Prothorax 

 wider than long, finely and irregularly punctate, with depressions near basal edge. Scutellum 

 large. Elytra short, truncate, leaving several abdominal segments exposed ; punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with short golden hair ; pygidium punctate, the basal part of last but one and last 

 segment clothed with a short pubescence. Length, 3.5 mm. to 3.9 mm. 



This insect was taken by Mr. Littlewood in company with C. hemipterus 

 feeding at sap on Buchanania latifolia. 



