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SCOLYTUS MINOR, MS. 
PlatetX nossa bac, us Plate x1, d. 
Reference :--This beetle is new to the British Wuseum collections. Ihave 
provisionally named it Scolytus minor, MS., to distinguishit 
from its larger companion which I call Scolytus major, MS. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scolytide. Sub 
Family, Scolytini. 
Tree attacked :—Cedrus Deodara (Deodar). 
Description. 
The Jarva is a small white curved legless grub with a 
yellow head. Length 2:2 millim. (See Pl. X, fig, 3, a.) 
Che pupa is white resembling the beetle in shape with its 
legs, antennz and wings lying against the breast of the insect, 
each enclosed in a thin membrane. (See PI. X, fig. 3, b.) 
The deetle has a great resemblance to the one already de- 
scribed as Scolytus sp. in these notes (No. 1, page 45), and which 
I now call Scolytus major, MS., but is considerably smaller. It 
is black, shining, cylindrical, legs brown to blackish and antennas 
and tarsi rufous brown, Head not covered over by the protho- 
rax, and with a broad rostrum. Antenna short, angled, the 
scape enlarged at the end ; funiculus 7-jointed, rst and 2nd joint 
long, 3rd to 7th only slightly increasing in size upwards; club 
longer than funiculus. Eyes narrow and long. Prothorax 
convex, longer than broad, sparingly punctured, the punctures 
being smaller and weaker on the anterior portion, which is very 
shining. Scutellum triangular. Elytra slightly longer than 
prothorax, punctured, but both here and on the prothorax the 
punctures appear to be more irregularly distributed than in the 
larger species above mentioned. Abdomen cylindrical ; under- 
surface is flexed upwards at the posterior end. Length 25 to 
2°8 millim. A reference to PI. X, fig. 3, c, will show what this 
insect is like. 
Life History. 
At elevations of between 6,000 and 7,000 feet, this beetle’s 
flight time is about the last week of April or the beginning of May. 
