Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . thefemale will carry her tunnel deeper down into the wood to escape the heatof the sun and the consequent more rapid drying of the outer sapwoodwhich the removal of the bark will ensure. The beetle attacks trees in swarms, so that a few days are sufficient forthe insects to have penetrated an unbarked log throughout its entire length,and the damage to the timber will then be irremediable, since it must beremembered that this damage is entirely the work of the beetle, and iscarried out within a period of,from ten days to a fortnight. Tha
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . thefemale will carry her tunnel deeper down into the wood to escape the heatof the sun and the consequent more rapid drying of the outer sapwoodwhich the removal of the bark will ensure. The beetle attacks trees in swarms, so that a few days are sufficient forthe insects to have penetrated an unbarked log throughout its entire length,and the damage to the timber will then be irremediable, since it must beremembered that this damage is entirely the work of the beetle, and iscarried out within a period of,from ten days to a fortnight. Thanasimus himalayensis, Stebbing.—In Jaunsar and Chamba I notedthat this predaceous clerid (described on p. 508) feeds upon this Crossotarsus in the imago stage. I do not know whether the larvae Predaceous Insect, crawl down the tunnels in the wood to attack the platypid grubs. The beetle catches the platypus insect on the bark of the tree whilst it is searching for a spot at which to tunnelin, or whilst engaged in the preliminary stages of Crossotarsus cnij\rac. Std>.. in deodar. The plate depicts the male and female beetles and a splitsection of a part of tin- trunk d a tree showing the egg-tunnels in the wood. North-West Himalaya. FAMILY PLATYPODIDAE 617
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