Indian Museum Notes. 



[Vol. III. 



to in these Notes, Vol. Ill, p. 22, as one of the insects infesting 

 the timber of the tree Terminalia belerica in the Bombay Presidency. 

 The natural size of the insect is indicated by hair lines. 



The above shows a beetle belonging to the species Hectarthrum hrevi- 

 fossum, Newra., as determined in the Indian Museum collection. It 

 emerged in the Museum from a block of Skorea assamica wood received 

 through the Forest School from the Deputy Conservator of Forests, 

 Lakhimpur, Assam, August 1891. The wood was badly tunnelled by 

 the larvEeof a large species of Cerambycidse upon which the Rectarthrum 

 is possibly parasitic. 



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The above shows the female of the species Lncanns lunifer, Hope, 

 referred to in these Notes^ Vol. II, p. 148, in connection with in- 



