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CYPHICERUS SP. 
Plate VIII, fig. 6. 
Reference :—Provisionally named Cyphicerus sp. not in the British 
Museum Collection. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Curculionide. 
Tree attacked :— Zectona grandis, Lin. (Teak), 
Description. 
Beetle.—@. General cclour brown with blackish head and 
thorax. Insect covered more or less with short stiff hairs. Ros- 
trum not longer than head. Antenne inserted near top; scrobes 
short and deep. The antennz are not inserted right at top of 
rostrum in 2 (they are so in g) but a little way down it; 
are set with hair: scape thick, thickening anteriorly, slightly 
arched; funiculus with first joint short, second nearly twice as 
long, third to seventh short and the club oval-oblong and 
pointed at its extremity and jointed. Eyes large, only slightly 
convex, oval-oblong, oblique. Prothorax rather narrow, straight 
in front and behind. Elytra oblong-oval, wider than pro- 
thorax, widening posteriorly and deflexed at their apices 
which meet in a point; brown in colour with a dull white 
transverse band in their posterior third; longitudinal parallel 
series of striae and punctures run down the elytra. Legs 
moderately long, thighs thickened and ending in a little 
spine beneath; tarsus very hairy beneath, third joint much 
broader than first and second. Body oblong, ¢ more yellow in 
colour without the white transverse patch on elytra and with 
the golden short stiff hairs much thicker on elytra. Antenne 
inserted at top of rostrum, Length@ 33th inch; 2 4th inch. 
Pl. VIII, fig. 6, shows a dorsal and side view of this insect. 
Life History, 
This insect appears on the wing in Berar in July, probably 
generally about the time the monsoon bursts. It feeds upon 
the leaves of the teak tree. Either the life of the beetle 
is a somewhat lengthy one or the eggs develop at irregular 
periods since a month later the weevils were found common 
in the Damoh forests in the Central Provinces. 

