IN THE BUNGALOW. 



they breed and the gregarious manner 

 in which they live and work together, 

 their attacks, both to the bungalow and 

 to the furniture, are at times very serious 

 and cannot be neglected. 



The worst of these pests and the ones 

 of chief importance in the bungalow 

 belong to one family of beetles, though 

 the insects boring into bamboos are 

 smaller in size than, and different in 

 species from, those which riddle the 

 timber. The method of life of these 

 wood-eating beetles is much the same. 

 The mature beetle bores into the bamboo 

 or timber, making a small circular orifice 

 in entering which has all the appearance 

 of a shot hole. When a number of beetles 

 have entered the same bamboo close 

 together, the latter looks as if it had had a 

 charge of No. 8 shot fired into it. On 

 getting into the interior a quarter to half 

 an inch, the beetle turns to the right or 

 left and, eating out a short gallery in the 

 wood-structure, lays eggs ; from 20 to 60 



