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CRYPHALUS LONGIFOLIA, MS. 
THE LONG-NEEDLED PINE SMALL CRYPHALUS. 
Plate XVI; Kig..7, a, b, cs 
Reference :—Provisionally named as Cryphalus longifolia, MS. new to the 
British Museum, 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scolytide. Sub- 
Family, Tomicini. 
Tree attacked :—Pznus longtfolia. 
Descriptions 
Beetle.—A minute insect, yellow to dark-brown in colour 
and clothed with a fairly dense mass of long whitish or whitish- 
yellow hairs. Antennz and legs bright yellow. Head hidden 
- by the thorax. Mandibles short. Scape of antennz thickened 
anteriorly, funiculus of four joints, the first large, longish; club 
flattened and oval. Prothorax wider than long, convex dorsally, 
armed with small spiny tubercles anteriorly. Elytra cylindrical, 
rounded at their posterior declivities, not wider than the thorax. 
Tibiz finely toothed on their outside edges. Tarsus with 
joints 1 to 3 of equal length. Body cylindrical, Length1 millim. 
or a little over. Pl. XVI, fig. 7, a, shows a dorsal and side view 
of this insect. 
Life History. 
This small beetle was found boring into the branches of 
old trees and also in the tops and branches of saplings in the 
first week in June. The insect was engaged in laying its 
eggs, and these were not unlikely those of the second genera-= 
tian of the year, since the elevation at which it lives is alow 
one. It infests green sickly branches and also those which are 
half dry. 
In boring into a branch this Cryphalus never goes in 
direct from the outside, but always searches out some small 
flake of bark beneath which to bore its entrance hole. The 
bark of the Pinus longifolia is rough even on small twigs, 
