FAMILY ELATERIDAE 229 



CARDIOPHORUS. 

 Cardiophorus sp. prox. maer (?), Candeze. 



REFERENCE. Provisionally identified as probably close to C. maer. 



Habitat. Tharrawaddy, Lower Burma. 



Tree Attacked. Cephalostachyum pergracile. Kadin Bilin, Tharrawaddy. 



Beetle. Small, elongate, narrow. Yellowish brown, head and prothorax red-brown. 

 Head finely punctate. Prothorax convex, anterior margin sinuate, sides rounded ; finely 



rugose- punctate. Elytra finely striate-punctate, 

 Description. sides straight to posterior coxae, thence con- 



stricted to apex, apices conjointly rounded. Legs 

 and antennae yellowish brown. Length, 8.5 mm. 



[Description from a single specimen in poor condition.] 



I cut a single specimen of this beetle from the dead 



wood of the wall of a large, hollow, 



Life History. dry Cephalostachyum pergracile bamboo, 



in the Kadin Bilin Forest, Tharra- I'" I<; - >5 2 - 



waddy. The larva had lived in the innermost layer of the , 



wood, and when full-fed had tunnelled deeper into the Candeze. 



wall and eaten out a pupating-chamber there. In this Lower Burma. 

 I took the beetle on 27 January 1905. The beetle was fully mature and 

 ready to issue. 



Cardiophorus sp. 

 Habitat. Vellore, Madras. 

 Tree Attacked. Casuarina (Casuarina equisetifolia'). Vellore, Madras. 



Beetle. Elongate, narrow, small, moderately shining. Head and prothorax black, elytra 

 red-brown, with a longitudinal black band down the suture, decreasing in width to apex. 



Prothorax very convex, smooth, very finely punctate, the outer 

 Description. posterior angles but slightly produced. Scutellum large, impressed 



in centre. Elytra strongly striate-punctate, the striae stron 



basally ; sides sharply constricted to apex, which is conjointly rounded. (Jnder-surface dull. 

 punctate; legs brown. Length, 12111111. 



A specimen of this elater was sent by the District Forest Officer from 



Vrllore, Madras, in company with Sinoxylon sudanicum, 



Life History. the insects being reported as injurious t<> (\i\Hiirinii 



equisetifolia in plantations in that district. The Sin<>.\\- 



lon has been already described on p. 176. I am unable to say whether the 

 elater was doing any damage to the tree. 



MELANOTUS. 



Melanotus sp. 



Habitat. Tehri Garhwal, North-West Himala\.i. 



Tree Attacked. Spurt- (Ticca iimriiuhi >. I)r<>t;i. Tchri Garhwal, North- 

 West Himalaya. 



