Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . ctateelytra. The insects are predaceous. Hectarthrum heros, Fabr. REFERENCE.—Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii, p. 92. Habitat.—Central Provinces, Burma. Habits.—The beetle has apparently a fairly wide distribution in have taken it in Seoni and Mandla in the Central Provinces and also veryplentifully in Tharrawaddy and Tenasserim in Lower Burma. Lefroy(Indian Insect Life) mentions it as common under the bark of trees withoutgiving any localities. I have found this Hectarthrum predaceous upon Sinoxylon crassumin Terminalia tomentosa and T.
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . ctateelytra. The insects are predaceous. Hectarthrum heros, Fabr. REFERENCE.—Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii, p. 92. Habitat.—Central Provinces, Burma. Habits.—The beetle has apparently a fairly wide distribution in have taken it in Seoni and Mandla in the Central Provinces and also veryplentifully in Tharrawaddy and Tenasserim in Lower Burma. Lefroy(Indian Insect Life) mentions it as common under the bark of trees withoutgiving any localities. I have found this Hectarthrum predaceous upon Sinoxylon crassumin Terminalia tomentosa and T. chebula in the Central Provinces (p. 166). In Burma it would appear to feed upon a variety of wood- and bark-boring insects, including termites. I took it in Adina sessilifolia feeding upon the Platypus suffodicns which riddles the wood of thistree (p. 621), and in Anogeissus latifolia feeding ontermites and other bark and wood insects, both inTharrawaddy. I also took it in pyinkadu on theSalween River feeding on the pyinkadu platypid(see p. 634).. Hectarthrum trigeminum, Newm. REFERENCE.—Newm. Ann. Nat. Hist. p. 393 (1839). \ Habitat.—Siwaliks, Dehra Dun. H Habits.—Student B. C. S. Gupta (now of the 7 Bengal Provincial Service) took specimens of this * >• W > insect under the bark of a dead Lagerstromia parvi- FIG. 80.—Hectarthrum tri- flora tree at Bulawala in the Siwaliks on 17 Feb- Newm. Siwaliks. ruary 1902. The insect is probably predaceous. FAMILY CUCUJIDAE 117 Hectarthrum uniforme, —Salween River, Tenasserim. Habits.—I took some specimens of this beetle from beneath the barkof a large dead standing Milnisa velutina tree on Kowloon Island in theSalween River on 9 March 1905. The tree was infested and the sapwoodriddled by a species of termite, a few wood-boring larvae being present. TheHectarthrum was feeding upon the termites. The insect is shown in fig. 13. insignis, Grouvelle. REFERENCE.—Grouvelle, Ind
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