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HYPOPHLCEUS FLAVIPENNIS, 
MOTS. 
Plate "Ally fiom s. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Tenebrionida. 
Description, 
The deetZe is small with a large exposed head, brown in 
colour, as is also the prothorax which is narrower in front than 
behind and longer than broad, Elytra yellowish, oval, finely but 
broadly striate with scattered punctures; they leave one segs 
ment of the body exposed. Antenna are shorter than prothorax, 
1f-jointed. Legs short. Last joint of tarsus longer than rest 
together. Length .:nds inch. PI. XIII, fig. 5, shows a dorsal 
and side view of this insect, 
Life History, ete. 
[am at present unable to say what part is played in the tree 
by this beetle, which is a small heteromerous one. [am not 
aware that it has ever been reported as injurious. It may 
possibly be a sap-feeder, but further observation on its habits 
is required, as also on those of its larva, 
The beetle was sent in company with the Tomicus from the 
Chogaun forest in Bashahr in 1900, it having been taken from the 
galleries of that beetle (or perhaps from those of its companion 
Polygraphus ?). ‘The following year, at the end of June, I found 
it in the same neighbourhood but at a lower elevation in bark- 
beetle galleries in the Pinus Gerardiana, the beetles from 
whose galleries I obtained immature specimens of it being 
species of Polygraphus and Pityogenes. 
This is at present all the information | have on the subject, 
