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This species has been collected a number of times on the piers at 

 various ports in Europe, and the adults are numerous on packet 

 boats coming from the Orient. Cann ( 1935) recorded the adults mak- 

 ing galleries in the teak (Tectonia grandis) and gurjum (Dipterocar- 

 pus alatus) timbers shipped from India to London, but that the 

 beetles made no attempt to breed in these woods, probably migrating 

 from infested bamboo on board the ships. 



Dinoderus minutus (Fabricius) 



Apate minutus Fabricius, 1775, Systema Entomologiae, p. 54; 1781, Species In- 

 sectorum, v. 1, p. 62; 1787, Mantissa Insectorum, v. 1, p. 33; 1792, Entomologia 

 Systematica, v. 1. pt. 2, p. 363; Herbst, 1793, Natursystem Insekten, Kafer, 

 v. 5, p. 78 ; Fabricius, 1801, Systema Eleutheratorum, v. 1, p. 383 ; Boisduval, 

 1835, Voyage de l'Astrolabe, pt. 2, p. 461. 



Bostrichus minutus Olivier, 1790, Encyc. Methodique, v. 5, pp. 107, 111; 1795, 

 Entomologie, v. 4, Gen. 77, p. 15, pi. 2, figs. 12a-b. 



Dinoderus minutus Lesne, 1896, Soc. Ent. de France Bui., p. 334; 1896, Ann. 65: 

 126, pi. 8, fig. 15 ; 1897, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Ann. 41 : 18 ; 1898, Soc. Ent. de France 

 Ann (1897) 66: 323, 329-330, figs. 12, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 27a; 1899, Mus. Civ. 

 Genova Ann. (1898) 19: 630; Scbilsky, 1899, in Kuster and Kraatz, Kafer 

 Europas, pt. 36, No. 97 ; Donistborpe, 1900, Ent. Rec. and Jour. Variation 12 : 

 16-18 ; Lesne, 1901, Abeille 30 : 70, 80, pi. 1, figs. 11, 15 ; Everts, 1901, Coleopt. 

 Neerlandica, v. 2, p. 210 ; Stebbing, 1903, Notes on Insects tbat Affect Forestry 

 (India), No. 2, pp. 172-173; Fauval, 1904, Rev. d'Ent. 23: 156-157; Lesne, 1904, 

 Abeille 30: 154; Stebbing, 1906, Notes on Insects that Affect Forestry (India), 

 No. 3, pp. 355-363, pi. 20, fig. 8, pi. 21, fig. ; Lefroy, 1909, Indian Insect Life, p. 

 316 : Reitter, 1911, Fauna Germanica, v. 3, p. 302 ; Jakobson, 1913, Kafer Rut- 

 land, pt. 10, p. 802 ; Lesne, 1914, Soc. Ent. de France Bui., p. 242, fig. 1 ; Steb- 

 bing, 1914, Indian Forest Insects, pp. 4, 14, 18, 19, 133-143, 186, 188, 355, pi. 9, 

 figs, a-d ; D'Emmerez, 1915, Mauritius Dept. Agr. Sci. Ser. Bui. No. 2, p. 7, 

 pi. 1, figs. 1, 3; Everts, 1922, Coleopt. Neerlandica, v. 3, p. 364; Lesne, 1924, 

 Bostricbides de l'Af rique Tropicale Franchise, pp. 61, 64-68, figs. 7, 8, 13, 38 ; 

 1926, Treubia 7: 118; Gardner, 1933, Indian Forest Rec. Ent. Ser 18 (9) : 8 

 (larva) ; Miller, 1934, Straits Settlements and Fed. Malay States, Dept. Agr., 

 Sci. Ser. No. 14, pp. 1, 2, 5, 9, 21-23, pi. 1, figs. 12-15 ; Knull, 1934, Ent. News 

 45 : 209 ; Beeson and Bhatia, 1937, Indian Forest Rec. New Ser., Ent. 2 : 225, 

 229, 233-251, 254-255, 309-320: Lesne, 1938, in Junk (pub.), Coleopt. Cat, pt. 

 161, p. 24 ; Back and Cotton, 1938, U. S. Dept. Agr. Farmers' Bui. 1260 (revised) , 

 p. 8; Lesne, 1939, Rev. Frang. d' Ent. 6: 91-94; Anderson, 1939, Wash. Acad. 

 Sci. Jour. 29: 388, figs. 3, 6 (larvae) ; Tooke and Scott, 1944, So. Africa Dept. 

 Agr. and Forestry Bui. 247 (Ent. Ser. 14), p. 7, fig. 4; Lever, 1945, Bui. Ent. 

 Res. 35: 374. 



Dinoderus bifoveolatus Zoufal (not Wollaston), 1894, Wien. Ent. Ztg. 13: 41-42; 

 Chittenden, 1895, Insect Life 7 : 327-328. 



Dinoderus substriatus Stephens (not Paykull), 1830, Illus. Brit. Ent., Mandibu- 

 lata. v. 3, pp. 352-353; Waterhouse, 1888; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 6) 

 1: 34S-349. 



BostricTius vertens Walker, 1859, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 3) 3: 260. 



Rhizopertha sicula Baudi, 1873, Berlin. Ent. Ztschr. 17 : 336-337 ; 1873, Mus. Civ. 

 Genova Ann. 4 : 265. 



Dinoderus japonicus Matsumura (not Lesne), 1915, Dainippon Gaichu Zensho 

 (Recueil des Borers du Japon), v. 2, p. 184, pi. 28, fig. 12 (not seen) ; 1931, 

 Nippon Konchu Daizukan (Grand Atlas des Insects du Japon), p. 174, fig. 361 ; 

 Chuj6, 1936, Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa Trans. 26 : 408. 



Reddish brown to brownish black, sometimes elytra more reddish 

 than rest of dorsal surface; labrum, palpi, antennal club, and tarsi 

 usually brownish yellow. 



Head coarsely, densely, uniformly punctate; labrum and clypeus 

 indistinctly punctate, the latter sparsely clothed with short, inconspic- 

 uous, erect hairs. Antenna, 10-segmented ; funicle sparsely clothed 

 with short, erect, yellowish hairs ; antennal club densely clothed with 



