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FAMILY CUCUJIDAE 



PLATYCOTYLUS. 

 Platycotylus inusitatus, Olliff. 



Habitat. Siwaliks, North India; Seoni, Central Provinces. Also reported 

 from Andaman Islands and North Borneo. 



Trees Infested. Lagerstromia parviflora and Erythrina suberosa : Bula- 

 wala, the Dun Forests (B. Sen Gupta) ; Terminalia tomentosa : Seoni. 



Beetle. Elongate. Shining. Head and prothorax dark brown ; elytra red or crimson 

 brown, darker along the suture ; antennae brown; legs brownish yellow. Head small, punctate. 

 Prothorax wider than head, anterior angles produced, sides rounded, base truncate, shining, 

 punctate. Scutellum elongate. Elytra strongly striate-punctate, slightly constricted behind, 

 apex rounded, pygidium yellow. Under-surface light reddish brown. Length, 6.5 mm. 



Specimens of this insect were taken about the middle of February 1902 

 by Student B. Sen Gupta from beneath the bark of a 

 Life History. dead Lagerstromia parviflora tree. Mr. Gupta subse- 

 quently found others in the rotting cambium of the 

 inner bark of a dead recently felled Erythrina suberosa. The insect was 

 in the imago stage. 



In September 1901 I obtained specimens of this insect from the galleries 

 of Sinoxylon crassum in the wood of a Terminalia tomentosa obtained from 

 Seoni in the Central Provinces. 



FIG. 81. Laemophloeus test ace us, F. 

 Siwaliks. 



LAEMOPHLOEUS. 



Laemophloeus testaceus, Fabr. 

 REFERENCE. Fabr. Mant. I. p. 166. 



Habitat. Siwaliks, North India. 



Tree Infested. Sal (Shorea robusta}. 

 Dholkhand, Siwaliks. 



Beetle. Very small, with elongate brown an- 

 tennae. Light brown, shining, the elytra yellowish 



brown ; legs yellowish. 

 Description. Head finely punctate. Pro- 



thorax smooth, square, 



I with a longitudinal lateral depression near each 

 edge. Scutellum large. Elytra elongate, sides 

 straight, apex rounded ; surface smooth. Hind 

 femora rather broad, smooth, shining. Length, 

 2.1 mm. 



I took specimens of this small cucujid 

 from beneath the bark of a felled sal-tree 

 at Dholkhand in the Siwaliks in January. 

 The insect appears to feed on the dead 

 cambium of the tree. 



