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CROSSOTARSUS PICEA, n. sp. 
Plate XXIV, figs. 2, 2a. 
Classification:—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Scolytide. Sub- 
Family, Platypini. 
Tree attacked :— Picea Morinda, Spruce. 
Description. 
Resembles last to some extent but differs in the thorax 
being shorter with no median line. In the female the head is 
large with a transverse median line and two longitudinal depres- 
sions behind it on vertex. The elytra are broad, slightly wider 
in frent than behind terminating at apex in two processes 
which curve over to almost meet the centre portions of the 
apices. The abdomen is concave. In the male the head is 
smaller, the transverse line being absent ; the elytra are narrower 
and parallel, the terminal hooks being shorter and only slightly 
curved inwards, and the body is not concave. Length 4°6 millim. 
Fig. 2 shows the female and fig. 34 the male of this beetle. 
Life-History. 
This insect bores into the wood of spruce. A number of 
dead insects were found in tunnels in the wood of a large dead 
girdled spruce, the tunnels having been bored above the girdle. 
I am at present unaware whether the insect bores into the wood 
whilst still fresh or only after it dies. This is all the informa- 
tion at present known about this beetle. The insect was taken 
in Tehri Garhwal, North-West Himalayas. 
