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Indian Forest Records, 
[Voi, VIII. 
the outside so that its appearance in longitudinal section is square 
bracket-shaped. ..[..Inside the gallery there is usually a mass 
of long fibres tightly packed aga ; nst one end. 
HAPLOHAMMUS CERVINUS, Hope. [Lamiidae.] 
This species forms a similar gallery usually of smaller dimensions. 
An unidentified species, presumably a lamiid, bores long galleries 
in the pith of epicormic branches, and yearling shoots, which are carried 
into the heartwood of the tree along the line of origin of the branch. 
These are frequently attacked by woodpeckers, and when overgrown 
simulate beeholes, but the replacement of the sapwood chamber by the 
circular emergence hole of the beetle serves as a means of identification. 
The borers mentioned above are typically pests of saplings and small 
poles. 
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