46 THE AGRICULTURAL PESTS OF INDIA. 



Anthrenus vorax did much damage to the stores of 

 soldiers' coats in India. 



Scarabseidse. Nearly all the species live in dung, 

 including the sacred-beetle (Scarabseus sacer). Some 

 species of this family in India are of great size (Helio- 

 copris midas), measuring more than two inches in length. 

 The MelolonthidsB (cockchafers) and the Eutelidae, both 

 feed on living vegetable matter, chiefly on roots of 

 grasses, shrubs, and trees, often doing much mischief. 

 Leucopholis pinguis, Lachnosterna pinguis, Mimela xan- 

 thorrhina, Anomala elata cause much damage to coffee 

 trees. The Cetoniidre (the rose-beetles), very similar in 

 their habits to the Melolonthidse ; one species, Clinteria 

 chloronata, does much mischief to coffee trees, the grub 

 eating the roots, and the beetle the blossoms. 



Buprestidse and Elateridse (click -beetles) ; the lame 

 feed on living wood, and are more or less injurious. 



Tenebrionidae, a large family, few of which are injurious; 

 Tenebrio is the meal-worm beetle. 



Cantharidre, the blister-beetles. 



Curculionidse, the weevils, including Calandra and 

 Ehynchophorus, the palm weevils ; Sitophilus orizse and 

 granarius, the corn weevils. Bruchidse, very destructive 

 to seeds, especially beans. 



Anthribidte. One species of this group (Aroeocerus 

 coffeoe) does much mischief to seeds of various kinds, 

 including coffee beans, and is met with nearly all over the 

 world. 



Prionidse, Cerambycidse, and Lamiidae, the long-horned 

 beetles. The larvse of these beetles live on both living 

 and dead wood, and often do much mischief. Some of 

 the beetles themselves also injure the trees by gnawing 

 off the smaller twigs. 



