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Elytra one and one-half times as long as pronotum ; sides parallel ; 

 sutural margins not elevated on apical declivity; surface sparsely 

 clothed with short, erect, rather stiff, yellowish hairs, coarsely, densely, 

 uniformly ocellate-punctate, the punctures on apical declivity dis- 

 tinctly separated, intervals not distinctly granulose. 



Body beneath densely, finely granulose, shallowly, obsoletely punc- 

 tate, sparsely clothed with moderately long, recumbent, yellowish 

 hairs; first segment of anterior tarsus not longer than the third or 

 fourth segment. 



Length 2.6-3 mm., width 1-1.5 mm. 



Type locality. — New Orleans, La. ; type in Horn Collection in the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Distribution. — This is the common bamboo borer in-India. It has 

 been recorded from Indo-China, Siam, Borneo, Malasia, India, China, 

 Burma, Malay Peninsula, Philippine Islands, Sunda Islands, and 

 Jamaica. Specimens have been examined from India, China, Burma, 

 and the Philippine Islands. Specimens have been intercepted in 

 bamboo at the following localities : 



District of Columbia : Washington. 



Minnesota: St. Paul. 



New Jersey : Hoboken ; Trenton. 



Texas : Galveston. 



Washington : Seattle. 



Hosts. — Beeson and Bhatia (1937) stated that this species primarily 

 breeds in bamboos, and the food plants of the larvae are restricted to 

 bamboos and canes. It has been recorded in the literature as attack- 

 ing the following host plants: Albizzia odoratissima, Atrocarpus hir- 

 suta, Balanites roxburghii, Butea frondosa, Ficus bengalensis, Lannea 

 grandis, Mangifera indica, Pinus kharya (bark on logs), Shorea ro- 

 lusta, Sonneratia apetala, Stercnlia campanulata, Bambusa poly- 

 morpha, B. arundinacea, Dendro calamus strictus, and Tectona grandis. 



Horn (1878) described this species from adults emerging from the 

 bumboo handle of a Japanese fan. Stebbing (1914) recorded this 

 species as infesting the bamboo (Dendro calamus strictus) in the roofs 

 of bungalows in India, and also the Sal (Shorea robusta) posts used 

 in supporting the bungalow roofs. 



Dinoderus ocellaris Stephens 



Dlnoderus ocellaris Stephens, 1830, Illus. Brit. Ent., Mandibulata, v. 3, p. 352; 

 Westwood, 1839, Introduction to the Classification of Insects, v. 1, p. 278 ; Lesne, 

 1898, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (1897) 66: 331; 1905, Abeille 30: 249; Jakobson, 

 1913, Kafer Russland, pt. 10, p. 802 ; Gardner, 1933, Indian Forest Rec. Ent. 

 Ser. 18: 8 (larva) ; Beeson and Bhatia, 1937, Indian Forest Rec. New. Ser., 

 Ent. 2: 225, 229, 233-251, 255-256, 309-319, fig. 2; Lesne, 1938, in Junk (pub.), 

 Coleopt. Cat., pt. 161, p. 25. 



D'noderus pilifrons Lesne, 1895, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. 64: 170' (separate 

 p. 2) ; 1897, Soc. Ent. de Belg. Ann. 41: 18; 1898, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. 

 (1897) , 66 : 322, 327, figs. 16, 20a ; 1899, Mus. Civ. Genova Ann. (1898) (ser. 2) 

 19 : 629, 637-638 ; Donisthorpe, 1900, Ent. Rec. and Jour. Variation 12 : 16-18 ; 

 Stebbing, 1903, Notes on Insects that Affect Forestry (India), No. 2, pp. 168-171, 

 pi. 8, figs, la-b ; Lesne, 1904, Abeille 30 : 154 ; 1905, iUd. 30 : 249 ; Lefroy, 1909, 

 Indian Insect Life, p. 316; Stebbing, 1914, Indian Forest Insects, pp. 4, 14, 

 130-133, 186, 188, figs. 89-90 ; Cann, 1935, Indian Forester 61 : 165 ; Lesne, 1938, 

 in Junk (pub.) , Coleopt. Cat., pt. 161, p. 25. 



Reddish brown, the labrum, palpi, antennae, legs and abdomen in 

 part, brownish yellow. 



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