Part I.] Stebbixg : Insect Pests of the Himalayan Oaks. 
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The damage it is capable of committing to the tree and the forest 
and the methods of combating its attacks are similar to those detailed 
above for the Dryocates bark borer. 
THE WOOD BORERS. 
CHRAMESUS GLOBULUS, n. sp. 
Steb. Dopartiiiental Notes on Insects that afifect Forestry (Cliraniesus ? sp.), 
I, m. 
Nature of Attack. 
The beetle tunnels down into the heart wood of the Ban oak to lay its 
eggs. Only green trees are attacked, usually sickly standing ones or 
newly felled ones. The damage committed is to the timber only. 
Previous Record of Insect. 
I first took this beetle early in May 1901 in .Taunsar, N.-W. Hima- 
laya. I have seen no other record of it either before or since. 
Distribution. 
The Ban oak forests of the N.-W. Himalaya. 
Elevation roughly about .5,000 feet to 5,500 feet. 
Description. 
Beetle. — Small, globular, very convex above, flat beneath, widest 
across middle. Head small, black with a yellowish brush of hair on fore- 
head. Prothorax black, pentangular in shape, anterior margin straight, 
slightly ridged with a transverse depression behind the ridge, posterior 
mai’gin produced back into a median point. Elytra very convex, purplish 
or black in colour, striate, base rugose, the interstrial spaces with series of 
fine raised poiirts ; the striie cuive inwards towards apex ; surface set w ith 
a short yellowish pubescence. Under surface flat, black ; abdominal 
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