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PITYOGENES CONIFERZ, MS. 
Plate XIII, fig. 4, a, b, c, d, f. 
Reference :—This beetle has also proved to be unrepresented in the British 
Museum. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scolytide. 
Trees attacked eae cxcelsa (Blue pine); Cedrus Deo- 
dara (Deodar) ; Pinus Gerardiana, F. 
Description. 
The /arva is a minute, curved, white, legless grub, (See 
PI. XIII, fig. 4, a.) 
The pupa is white and has the ordinary beetle form. A 
ventral view is shown in fig. 4, b. 
The beetle is small, oblong, shining, with head entirely 
concealed beneath the thorax, and not visible from above. 
Thorax black, slightly longer than broad, punctured all over and 
covered with scattered canary yellow hairs. Elytra rufous- 
brown, lightly punctured and with scattered yellow hairs; they 
are channelled and slope down posteriorly, the truncate end 
being sculptured and bearing small projections which are much 
larger in male than in the female (cf fig.4,candd.) Antenne 
and legs rufous-brown in colour, Ventral surface black, shining, 
and covered with scattered yellow hairs. Tibiz are spined, 
Length 2°35 millim. Pl. XII}, fig. 4, c, shows the d andd, a 
dorsal and side view of the 2? of this small beetle. 
Life History. 
This beetle would appear to have at least three (and more 
probably four) generations in the year, Mature insects are 
