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Family Buprestidae (Jewel Beetles). 
Mueller named the Western Australian species Eucalyptus bufircslium because 
huprestid beetles were attracted by its honey flow. He (" Eucalyptographia," under 
E. buprestium) quotes Tepper as finding large numbers of large and showy Migmodera 
beetles of four species on E. uncinata in Yorke's Peninsula, S.A. Mr. Tepper quotes 
one species as frequenting the flowers of E. oleosa. These beetles do not eat the leaves 
of the Eucalypts. 
Under the name of "She-oak Root Borer" (Stigmodera heros), Mr. C. French, 
Part V, Plate XXI (op. rit.), figures this species, which he says is very destructive and 
is commonly found in Eucalypts in the drier country. 
Family Cioidae (Powder-post Beetles). 
These are pests in furniture. See a brief and general article entitled " Furniture 
and timber boring insects," by C. French, Jnr. (Australian Forestry Journal, Oct., 1919, 
p. 299). See also an article " The Powder-post Beetle, Lycteus brunneus," with a figure, 
by Froggatt, in Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., April, 1920, p. 273. 
Family Tenebrionidae (Meal-worm Beetles). 
In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xi, 520 (1887), Mr. William Macleay gave an account 
of a group of the Tenebrionidse called " Helseides." The genus Pterohdaus consists 
of flat insects, of pitchy or black colour, found under the loose bark of living Gum 
trees. 
Family Lagriidse. 
Lagria grandis feeds on the foliage of young Eucalypts ; it is the common Lagria 
about Sydney. (W. W. Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xviii, 42, 1893.) 
Family Curculionidae (Weevils). 
The well-known Snout Beetles, one of the largest and best defined groups of the 
Coleoptera. 
Ctwrrus ebeninus is one of the large stout weevils common in the bush around 
Sydney, where it is usually found clinging to the twigs of the Blqodwood (Eucalyptus 
corymbosa). (Froggatt, p. 183.) 
Under the name " Red Gum-tree Weevil," C. French, in his " Destructive Insects 
of Victoria," Part IV, figures Strongylarhinus ochraceus. The " Red Gum " of Victoria 
s Eucalyptus rostrata, but this beetle has also been extensively found in E. mdliodora. 
Mr. French says,." It will have been frequently observed by persons travelling in Victoria 
that many of the boles or stems of our Gum trees are disfigured by large excrescences, 
which, at a distance, have the appearance of a swarm of bees which had settled upon 
stem of a tree. Upon closer inspection, however, it will be found that this 
sfigurement has been caused by the depredations of certain weevils, which form 
the subject of the present chapter." 
