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CRYPHALUS BOSWELLIA, MS. 
THE BOSWELLIA CRYPHALUS. 
Plate XVI, fig. 4, a, b, c. 
Reference :—Provisionally named as Cryphalus boswellie, MS. new to the 
British Museum. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scolytilda. Sub: 
Family, Tomicini. 
Tree attacked :—Aoswellia serrata. 
Description. 
Larva.—A small white curved legless grub (see Pl, XVI, 
fig. 4, a). 
Pupa.—White, unenclosed in any cocoonor covering, the 
antenne, wings, and legs being quite free and held close to the 
sides of the beetle (see Pl. XVI, fig. 4, b). 
Beetle.—Colour black. Head and thorax pitted. Elytra 
with striz and wide rows of bluish white punctures between 
them. Mandibles short. A brush of yellow hairs round the 
mouth. Scape of the antennez, which are dark brown, long 
club-shaped ; funiculus four-jointed, the first joint thick, 
elongated, the 2nd to 4th only slightly increasing in size; club 
flattened, oval. Eyes long, narrow, transverse. Prothorax not 
wider than broad, narrower in front than behind, with only pits 
and not tubercular projections anteriorly. Elytra cylindrical, 
rounded on their posterior declivity, not wider or only very 
slightly so than prothorax, slightly bending inwards at their base, 
Legs dark-brown, Tibiz curved and finely toothed on their 
exterior edges ; tarsus yellow, with the first three joints of equal 
length. A very short yellowish pubescence over the prothorax 
and elytra in this beetle. Length just over =4,.th inch. 
Pl. XVI, fig. 4,c, shows a dorsal and side view of this 
insect. 
Life History. 
The flight time of this beetle is about the beginning of 
August and probably for some time later, The insect in all 
