32 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. VL 



Coll. Ind. Mies. Calc. — Hazaribagh, Bhadra : Coll. Steb.— Karachi 

 Museum. 



Life-History.— \n Indian Museum Notes, Vol. II, p. 150, this 

 species is said to tunnel into the wood of guava trees. Trees in 

 Hazaribagh were reported to be so infested. This information is 

 very meagre and it is not stated whether the trees were dying or 

 dead. Although the species would appear to be widely distributed 

 in India, nothing further upon its life-history has been observed. 



Genus BostricJiopsiSj, Lesne. 



Lesne, Rev. des Bostr. 3rd Mem. in An. Sec. Ent. Fr., Vol.' LXVII, p. 524. 



(1898). 



Body cylindrical. Cephalic capsule without a post-ocular constric- 

 tion. Head not regularly convex above, its dorsal profile not form- 

 ing an arc of a circle. Buccal border not indented beneath the eyes.. 

 Articulations of the antennal club with more or less well-marked 

 golden yellow velvety patches. Prothorax not hollowed out over its 

 anterior edge. This latter with no marginal row of teeth. Its 

 posterior angles round or straight, not lobed. Elytra without keel* 

 shaped processes or tubercles in front. Last visible segment of the 

 body rounded behind. 



The Bostrychopsis are of small size and brown colour and are 

 spread over all the warmer parts of the world, with the exception 

 of apparently C. America and the Pacific Archipelago. 



The peculiarity about the genus is that there are several different 

 forms of $ and ? present. According to their mutual affinities,. 

 Mr. Lesne divides the different specific forms of this genus into six 

 groups. His groups I and II consist of those species confined to 

 the Old World. His group III of one species B. Jesuita, which he 

 confines to Australia but which the writer has found in India, Mr. 

 W. F. H. Blandford having identified my specimens in the British 

 Museum in 1897. 



Species of group I do not appear to have been yet reported 

 from India. 



The following are the characters of group II : — 



Heteromorphous 6": Body generally larger and thicker than the ? .. 

 Forehead simple, the frontal clypeal suture obsolete on the sides,, 

 sunk in the middle. Prothorax larger than in the ? , prolonged at its. 

 anterior angles into horns strongly curved downwards and recurved 

 at their tips. Apical declivity of the elytra wider than that of the ? 

 and furnished on each side with two marginal callosities. The 

 pleural parts of the last visible segment of the abdomen generally- 



