Indian Forest Records. [Vol. YII 
in the insectary (RRD. 354, BCR. 118) which yielded one female of 
Macrotoma crenata on 8-VIII-1918. 
The galleries run irregularly in the wood deep in the core and are 
packed with a fairly compact mass of fibres, which are finer and dust¬ 
like in the early galleries; the diameter varies from J to \\ inches. 
The pupal chamber in an irregular excavation about 4" x 1 f", contain¬ 
ing loosely aggregated masses of fibres. The exit tunnel narrows very 
much towards the extremity, i.e., from 1J" to §", and runs almost 
horizontally to the outside. 
The exit hole is subrectangular, x 
A female beetle collected by student Caldecourt at Suini, Chakrata 
Division, Jaunsar, U. P., is labelled “ found in wood of felled oak tree 
(Morn), 2-VI-1916. 
A female beetle was found at the base of a Sal stump by Range 
Officer P. C. Sinha, Gorakpur Division, U. P., on 23-VI-1918. 
In 1905 Mr. T. R. Bell bred a long series of this species from the 
roots and trunk of Tamarix, at Karachi. 
REMPHAN HOPEI, WATERIL 
Waterhouse, 1836, Trans. Ent. Soc., London, I., p. 67, pi. 8, fig. 1. 
Distribution. 
India; Andaman Islands; North Toungoo; Pegu; Mergui Archi¬ 
pelago; Siam; Penang; Borneo. 
Food Plants. 
Dijoterocarjous turbinatus , Gaertn. f. (Gurjan). 
DESCRIPTION OF THE STAGES. 
1. The Adult. 
[ See Plate II, Figs. 7, 8.] 
General description. Variable in colour from reddish brown to 
dark brown but with the elytra always lighter in tint. Antennae with 
the 3rd joint equal in length to the 1st and spined. Prothorax with the 
sides converging in front and armed with numerous sharp spines on the 
edges. Surface of the pronotum and elytra smooth, without marked 
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