FAMILY ANTHRIBIDAE 



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In January 1905 I cut out a specimen of this beetle from a pupal 

 chamber in the wood at the base of the stem of a large girdled pyinkadu- 



tree. The outer sapwood of the bole of the tree was 



Life History. covered from base to top with the shallow larval galleries 



of a bast-feeding grub. I was unable to say whether 



these galleries were made entirely by the grubs of this anthribid, but 

 one of the galleries led down into the pupal chamber in which the fully 

 mature beetle was found. 



Phloebius apicalis, \Yalker. 



REFERENCE. Walker. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, iii, p. 262 (1851,). 



Habitat. Tharrawaddv, Lower Burma, Ceylon. 



Tree Attacked. Pyinkadu (Xylia dolabrifonnis). 

 Kadin Bilin, Tharrawaddy. 



Beetle. Elongate, rather thick, with very elongate thin an- 

 tennae ; the third tarsal joint large and broadly heart-shaped. Black, 



covered with a very short dense canary- 

 Description, yellow pubescence. Head narrow, cani- 



culate medianly ; rugose and clothed with 



yellow pubescence. Prothorax much wider than head, widest across 

 middle, the sides truncate on either side of this point, base straight ; 

 disk convex, rather finely transversely striate and punctate. Elytra 

 broadest at base, slightly constricted apically ; apices conjointly 

 rounded, exposing a small pygidium ; finely, rather irregularly, 

 and obscurely striate-punctate, and covered with the close yellow 

 pubescence, densest apically. Under-surface dull, very finely punc- 

 tate and pubescent. Legs long, black, with very prominent enlarged 

 third tarsal joints. Length, 13.5 mm. (without antenna.- . 



FIG. 258. 



r/il(>t'l>ins apicalis, 

 \YalkiT. Than, i\\ .ul.lv. 



I took specimens of this insect from small pupal chambers in the sap- 

 wood of a large girdled pyinkadu-tree in the Kadin 

 Life History. Bilin Forest in Tharrawaddy on 5 January 1905. 

 The larval galleries were found to run in the bast and 



sapwood, the grub pupating in the latter. The beetles were mature and 

 ready to fly. 



Anthribid. 



K'KKKKENCE. It li;is not pn.vi-.l possible t<> oht.iiti th.- iilentific.-iti.iii of th 



Habitat. Ataran River, Tenasserim. 



Tree Attacked. Tyinkadu \\yl\<\ dolabriformis). Natchming, Ataran 

 River. 



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