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Some Natural Enemies of Scolytus major and S. minor, 
beetles. 
CLERUS SP. 
Plate X, fig. 4, a,b. Also see PI. IV, fig. 5 (larva) in No, 1. 
Reference :—Provisionally determined as Clerus sp. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Cleride. 
Predaceous upon— 
1. Bark Borers— 
Scolytus major and minor, MS.; Tomicus sp; 
Polygraphus major and minor, MS.; Pityo genes 
coniferze, MS. 
2. Wood Borers— 
Diapus impressus, or close ally ; Platypus or Diapus 
sp.; Rhyncholus sp.; Hylastes sp. 
Description. 
Larva.—General colour, a bright pink. Head brown, flat. 
Mandibles black. A brown dorsal patch on first segment of 
thorax and a pair of brown spots situated dorsally on each of 
the two following segments. These thoracic segments paler 
pink than following abdominal ones. Latter nine in number, 
bright pink to reddish pink in colour except last which is 
smaller and brown posteriorly where it ends in two small black 
processes. The larva tapers anteriorly and has three pairs of 
legs on the thoracic segments and no others. It is slightly 
lighter in colour beneath. 
Beetle.—The shape of the head and prothorax of this beetle 
are ant-like, whilst the body is short and squarish and not unlike 
that of alongicorn beetle, having well marked ‘shoulders,’ Head 
and antenne black. The antennz are 11-jointed, the joints 
slightly increasing in width upwards, the last three forming a 
small club, the last joint of which is the largest. Prothorax black 
with hairs on the dorsal surface. Both head and prothorax are 
_ narrower than the elytra which are broad and rounded at their 
apices; in colour these are red for about the basal quarter 
