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TOMICUS SP. = 1_Kuiten leet’ *lbag 
bad fou . Pitan: Vak .h a Ne, o, 
Tue Buue Pine ToMICcus. (404, pla-is. 

Plate XIII, fig. 1 a, b, c, d.; Plate XIV; Plate XV, fig. 1. 
Reference :—Provisionally determined as Tomicus sp. neartoT. typo- 
graphus. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scolytide. Sub- 
Family, Tomicinl, 
Trees attacked :—Pinus excelsa (blue pine) ; Picea Morinda 
(spruce). 
Description. 
The /arva is a small, white, curved, legless grub, about 4°5 
millim, in length, with a yellow head and greatly developed 
thoracic segments, See PI, XIII, fig. 1, a. 
The pupa is white in colour and has the ordinary beetle 
shape. 
The dcetle is at first light yellow and rests for some 
time in the pupal chamber, whilst its outer parts are slowly 
hardening, the colour changing as this process takes place to 
dark yellow-brown the insect finally becoming dark-brown. 
When ready to issue from the wood, the beetle is shining, 
oblong, hairy beneath, with scattered hair on the dorsal surface. 
The head is hidden beneath the thorax and is scarcely visible 
from above; the thorax is 2} millim, long by 13 millim. broad ; 
its dorsal surface with a fine sparse punctation over the posterior 
half, whilst covered in front with small tubercular projec- 
tions; elytra cylindrical, with impressed stria, the intervals 
being punctured ; the elytra slope down at the apex, the sloping 
portion . being excavate; apical excavation shining and 
irregularly punctate, with five teeth on either side, the third of 
which is the largest, the fifth being little more than a raised 
lump or projection. This beetle would therefore appear to 
differ from 7. ¢ypographus in this respect as the latter has only 
four teeth on either side. Under surface of abdomen is flat. 
Tarsal joints 4 in number and simple. Length of beetle 5:2 to 
5°5 millim, (ith inch or a little over). 
Pl. XIII, fig. 1, 4, shows the pupa and ¢, the mature beetle, 
