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number of species recorded being apparently due to errors of geog¬ 
raphy in the earliest describers of species. 
Calodromus Mellyi G-uer., CalUpareius foveatus Senna, Cerohates 
canaliculatus Mo., Symmorphocems cardoni Senna, Prophthalmus. 
delesserti : Pow., P. obscums Pow., P. potens Lac., Baryrhynchm miles 
Boh., Eupsalis tmncatus Boh., Orychodes pusillus Oliv., are the known 
Indian species. 
ScOLYTIBiE. 
Rostrum short or absent. Antennce short, elbowed , dubbed. Tarsi 
apparently four-jointed, filiform , third joint entire or 
bilobed, not elongated . 
A family closely allied to some of the Ourculionidae in structure 
but distinct in the almost total absence of the rostrum and in their 
Fig. 271.— Xyleborus fornicatus [I. M. N.]. 
habits. Most are elongated and cylindrical, of small size and of the 
dull brown or black colour common to beetles which live in darkness. 
The antennas are short, sometimes with twelve joints (funiele 1, scape 7 
club, 4), sometimes with as few as three. ' (Fig. 193.) 
