FAMILY CANTHARIDAE 



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ClSSITES. 



Cissites testaceus, Fabr. 



REFERENCE. Fabr. Spec. Ins. i, 256 (1781). 



Habitat. Rangoon, Burma ; Calcutta. 



This insect is predaceous upon the carpenter-bee Xylocopa latipes, the 



beetle entering the tunnels in the wood and ovipositing 



Habits. in them. The grubs of the beetle 



feed upon those of the Xylocopa, 



pupating in the wood when full-grown. 



I took this insect in the tunnels of the carpenter- 

 bee in pyinkadu logs in Calcutta in 1903. The logs 

 were imported from Rangoon a short time previously, 

 and portions of them were kept under my observa- 

 tion at the Indian Museum during the year (vide 

 Xylocopa, vol. ii). 



Green has recorded * a similar habit in the case of 



Cissites dchvi. which oviposits in the galleries of 



, , , . TTT Cissites testaceus. 



Xylocopa tenmscapa, Westw. Fabr. Burma. 



HOLOPELTIS. 



Holopeltis 3-cornis, Fairm. 



REFERENCE. Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxviii, 22 (1894). 



Habitat. Salween River, Tenasserim. 



Tree Infested. Schleichera trijn^ti. Kowloon Island, Salween River. 



Beetle. Small, elongate-ovate, Hat. Black. Two small teeth on upper part of head, 

 with a larger upcurved brown one on lower part of front, giving the beetle a resemblance to 



a miniature Oryctes rhinoceros (vide p. 88). Prothorax wider than 



Description. long, deeply emarginate on anterior edge, sides curved, widest behind, 



with an irregular depression on each side of disk just above base ; very 



finely punctate. Klytra moderately convex, sides rounded and flattened horizontally on 

 margin, the flattened part brown ; finely striate-punctate, the striations and punctures almost 

 obsolete mcdianly. Cinder-surface dark brown, black medianly, finely punctate. Legs bi 

 Length, 5 mm. to 5.5 mm. 



I found this small beetle in fair numbers beneath the bark of a standing 



green SclilcicJicra li-ijnga tree. The insects appeared to 



Life History. be feeding on the sap of the tree. I do not know the 



larval form. The iimtmv beetles were taken mi i) M.uvh 



1905 on Kowloon Island in the Salween River in Tenasserim. 



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