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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. VI 
Food Plant. 
The species is known only from the Sal (Shorea robusta ), although 
many of its associates in Sal are known to attack Terminalia tomentosa , 
Dalbergia Sissoo, Bombax malabaricum and other trees. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE INSECT. 
The following general descriptions of the stages of the insect and the 
figures of the same on Plate I are given, with the object of facilitating 
recognition in the field at any stage in its development. Detailed 
anatomical descriptions will be given in a future paper on the Platy- 
podidae. 
The Adult. (Plate I, figs. 1 & 2.) 
Male (fig. 1 X12). The sexes are dimorphic and easily recognizable. 
The male beetle is 3-5 mm. to 4 mm. in length, cylindrical, shining. 
Head and prothorax black ; elytra yellowish-brown with the apical 
third dark brown ; legs yellowish-brown, long, with fine elongate tarsi. 
Head punctate with the front slightly concave, and the antennae elbowed, 
terminating in a flattened oval club. Eyes large, pear-shaped. Thorax 
oblong with a very short basal median line, on each side of which are 
groups of 4 or 5 pores. Elytra feebly punctured in lines ; the apical margin 
of each elytron is armed with 5 blunt flat teeth-like processes, which 
conjointly produce an embattlemented appearance at the edge of the 
elytra. A group of minute pores near the outer apical margin of each 
elytron. The Abdomen is transversely convex with the last segment 
deeply concave, punctured, and sparsely covered with short yellow 
hairs. 
Female (fig. 2 xl2). Similar to the male in general form and color¬ 
ing but differing in the following respects. Antennae inserted in a 
line parallel with the upper edge of the eyes. Front of the head with 
a conspicuous brush of yellow hairs made up of four groups. From 
the anterior edge of the front the bunches of hairs extend upwards 
and curving backwards over the whole of the front meet the top of the 
head. Between the eyes are two large clusters of similar hairs, also 
divided into groups, the inner pair of which extend straight out from 
the front but are slightly bent downwards the tips ; the other two 
groups are twisted outwards round the first pair and then cross in the 
middle of the front. Prothorax with a short median line on each side 
of which are groups of 11 or 12 large pores. Elytra with the apical 
margin rounded and not dentate. 
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