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An Insect Enemy of Scolytus sp. 
PREDACEOUS CLERID LARVA. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Cleridz. 
Accompanying the Sco/ytus beetles found in Bashahr were 
a number of long fleshy-pink larve from a 3 to § of an inch 
long and provided with strong, flat mandibles, twelve distinct 
rings to the body, the last one ending in two hooks. See PI. 
IV, fig. 5. 
These larve are carnivorous and in all probability prey upon 
the Scolytus grubs. Whether they also attack the beetles or 
these latter are attacked by the clerid beetles, which is more 
probable, has yet to be discovered. 
These larve exercise no doubt a check on the rapid multi- 
plication of this pest, and their protection, whenever possible, is 
to be desired. 
Nothing further on the subject of this insect’s life history is 
at present known, and the beetle has not yet been found. The 
writer will be glad to receive notes and specimens on the vari- 
ous stages of its life history. 
Wood-boring Insects following the Scolytus attacks. 
BUPRESTID and LONGICORN BORERS. 
(Buprestidze and Cerambycidez.) 
Ina tree nearly dead but still.standing, which had been 
badly attacked by the Scolytus sp. beetle during the 1900 in- 
vasion, as evidenced by the numerous galleries on the inside of 
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