Identifier: indianforestinse00stebuoft (
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Indian forest insects of economic importance. ColeopteraYear:
1914 (
1910s)Authors:
Stebbing, Edward Percy, 1870-1960Subjects:
Beetles Forest insects -- India Trees -- Diseases and pestsPublisher:
London Eyre & SpottiswoodeContributing Library:
Earth Sciences - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:n the middle of May. It was ascertained that the beetles will bore into the trees within a couple of months of their being felled. Xyleborus major, Stebbing. REFERENCES.—Stebbing (Phloeosinus), Undescr. Scolyt. of Ind. Regions, Ind. For. Mem. Zool. Ser. vol. i,pt. ii, 19 (1909); id. Assam Sal Insect Pests, Ind. For. Bull. no. u, p. 36 (1907). Habitat.—Assam. Tree Attacked.—Sal (Shorea robusta). Goalpara Sal Forests. Beetle.—Robust and thick ; moderately shining. Head and prothorax reddish. Elytradark reddish-brown. Head large, front smooth and dull medianly, at the sides of the eyes and posteriorly punctate, the punctures large and confluent, tailing Description. off behind and above the eyes; a fringe of yellow hairs at base of mandibles. Prothorax but slightly broader than long, very convex, ilminating in a prominent peak on centre of disk ; covered with sharp spiky prominencesicales on anterior portion, these decreasing in size behind and laterally ; the depressed PLATE LX.Text Appearing After Image:11 12 i. i, Xylcliorus majflT, Steb. ; l>, borings in s;Il wood of Xyleb >rns major, Steb. ; 2, Dryocoetesminor, Steb. : 3. Xvlciorits bengalensis, Sicli. : 4. :,, Xyleborus fallax, Eichh., $ and $ beetles ;6, Xyleborus >(////,////. Steb. ; 7. .
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