62 8 FAMILY PLATYPODIDAE 



Platypus sp. 

 Habitat. Upper Burma. 

 Tree Attacked. Wcndlandia tinctoria. Kadu Hill, Katha. 



Beetle. Large, reddish brown, shining. Prothorax finely punctate, smooth. Elytra 

 strongly striate-punctate, the striae prominent and strongest basally, interspaces broad and 



punctate. The specimen has the head, anterior portion of prothorax, 

 Description. and the posterior end of abdomen missing. Length of mutilated 



specimen about 9 mm. 

 This Platypus is therefore of considerable size. 



I found a specimen of this insect embedded in the wood of a large 



newly felled Wendlandia tinctoria in the clearing on 



Life History. the summit of Kadu Hill in Katha on 21 February 1905. 



The beetle was dead and mutilated, and wedged into 



its tunnel, which penetrated deep down into the tree. 



DIAPUS. 



Diapus impressus, Janson. 

 REFERENCE. Janson, Ind. Mus. Notes, iii, i, p. 74 (1893). 



Habitat. North-West Himalaya. 



Tree Attacked. Ban Oak (Quercus incana). Jaunsar. 



Beetle. Elongate cylindrical, with a vertical exserted head, broader than thorax, and weak 

 legs. Red-brown, shining, basal margin of the thorax and elytra brownish yellow, apical 



posterior of the latter red-brown ; legs and antennae pale yellow. 



Description. Thorax oblong, strongly emarginate at sides before the middle, base 



finely and closely punctured and with a slight median line. Elytra 



punctate-striate, the second striae from suture and the outer marginal one broader and more 

 strongly punctured, the first and second interstices from the suture strongly raised, the fourth 

 slightly convex ; the apex coarsely punctured, subtruncate. and unarmed in the male, in the 

 female with five acute apical spines. Under-surface light orange-yellow between the second 

 and third pairs of legs, brown anteriorly to this, and dark brown to black on abdominal seg- 

 ments, which are very short. Abdomen densely pubescent at apex in male, in the female con- 

 cave, rugulose. Length, 3^ mm. to 4 mm. (PI. xlv, figs. 5, 5 a.) 



Larva. White, legless, straight, with a light orange-yellow head and black mandibles. 



The only specimens of this insect taken appear to have been sent to 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Deoban, Jaunsar, in 

 Life History. December 1891. The insects were reported as tun- 

 nelling into ban-oak stumps, but nothing further appears 

 to be known about them. 



Diapus ( ? ) heritierae, Stebbing. 



REFERENCE. Stebbing, Depart. Notes, i, 420 (1906). 



Habitat. Bengal. 



Tree Attacked. Sundri (Hcnticra littoralis). Backerganj, Sundarbans 

 (Sen Gupta). 



