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SPH /EROTRYPES CO!MBATORENSIS, n. sp. 
Plate XXIII, figs. 2, 2a, 20. 
“Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scolytide. Sub- 
Family, Hylesini. 
Tree attacked :—4nogetssus latifolia. 
Description. 
Larva.—When first hatched the larve are minute little 
-white legless grubs, very convex dorsally and slightly so on their 
vunder surface. Pl. XXIII, fig. 2, shows a partially grown larva 
_of this beetle. 
Beetle.—Small, black, globular, constricted behind. Head 
“black with a depression below, forehead; antennz yellow with 
_an elongate club consisting of several divisions, Thorax narrower 
:in front than behind,! the greatest width $rds down; anterior 
:margin with a transverse prominent depression below it ; posterior 
‘produced backwards medianly into an elongate point; surface 
covered with minute elevations and a few sparse short yellow 
bristles and a longitudinal median elevate line, often not very 
prominent. Elytra with basal margins convexly rounded and. 
minutely serrate, constricted behind with apex angled; they leave 
;uncovered the last segment of abdomen; broadly striate, the 
-interstrial portions set with small sharp elevations, much smaller 
‘than in P. stwaltkensts; the strize and elevations less well 
defined on the basal edge of elytra, the stria curved backwards 
to meet in apical margin. Under-surface slightly convex, black ; 
-abdominal segments set with short sparse whitish bristles. Legs 
black, tarsi yellowish. Length 4-3th inch. The differently 
-shaped and relatively larger (in proportion to the elytra) 
thorax and the distinctly different appearance of the striez and 
elevations on the elytra serve to easily distinguish this insect from 
SP. stwalikensis, Plate XXIII, figs. 2a, 26, show a dorsal and 
side view of this beetle. 
Life-History. 
This insect lays its eggs in the cambium layer of trees, 
“To enter the tree a circular hole is bo.ed through the bark 
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