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RHYNCHOLUS SP. 
Plate X5tig. or Ma, wb: 
Reference :—Provisionally determined as Rhyncholus sp. new to the Britis 
Museum Collection. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA, Family,-Gossonide. “~ 
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Trees attacked :— Pinus excelsa (Blue Pine), Picea Morinda 
(Spruce) and perhaps Cedrus Deodara (Deodar). 
Description. 
I have as yet only found the beetle. 
Beetle.—Long, narrow, black, shining, with elbowed antenne, 
the club of antenna being pale yellow and tibiz and tarsus 
rufous-brown with reddish yellow hairs. Head large; rostrum 
not longer than head, stout, cylindrical, slightly depressed 
downwards; scrobes narrow, starting near centre of rostrum 
and oblique. Antenne start from lower half of rostrum, short, 
fairly stout; scape club-shaped at upper end; funiculus 7- 
jointed, 1st joint long, 2nd to 7th very short, increasing in size 
upwards ; club smallish, oblong-oval, rst joint long and reversed 
cone-shaped ; others short, spongy, pale yellow in colour. Eyes 
medium sized, oval. Prothorax long, slightly conical and 
rounded on sides, truncate at upper and basal ends, with a 
slightly transverse depression just below the upper edge. 
Scutellum very small. Elytra long, cylindrical, slightly flatten- 
ed, slightly wider than prothorax behind, depressed behind, and 
projecting down laterally below the abdomen towards their 
extremities on either side, the extremities being pointed and 
having a crescent-shaped interval between them, the points of 
the elytra forming the outer horns of thecrescent. The elytra 
bulge laterally on either side into a small projecting point just 
before the depression commences. Legs short, femora thickened 
in middle and flat, arched beneath; tibiz straight, flattened, 
and toothed at their base; tarsus short, filiform; 3rd joint not 
longer than the others and not bilobed; 4th long with small 
claws. Intercoxal joint large and rounded anteriorly. Body long 
