Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . 1 b Platypus Informix, Chap., in Ji/uts loti^ifolia.— i, la, male and female beetles ; i/>, section of theunk of a tree showing entrance-holes and <.•-;_;-tunnels of the beetles in the wood. North-West Himalaya. FAMILY PLATYPODIDAE 621 Platypus suffodiens, Sampson, sp. nov. REFERENCE.—Sampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, xii, 447 (1913). Habitat.—Lower Burma. Trees Attacked.—Adinasessilifolia and Adina cordifolia;the Rain Tree (Pithecolobiiun sain an}. Tharrawaddy. Beetle.—Moderately shining chestnut brown, the head and elytra in
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . 1 b Platypus Informix, Chap., in Ji/uts loti^ifolia.— i, la, male and female beetles ; i/>, section of theunk of a tree showing entrance-holes and <.•-;_;-tunnels of the beetles in the wood. North-West Himalaya. FAMILY PLATYPODIDAE 621 Platypus suffodiens, Sampson, sp. nov. REFERENCE.—Sampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, xii, 447 (1913). Habitat.—Lower Burma. Trees Attacked.—Adinasessilifolia and Adina cordifolia;the Rain Tree (Pithecolobiiun sain an}. Tharrawaddy. Beetle.—Moderately shining chestnut brown, the head and elytra inapical half dark brown to black ; under-surface lighter chestnut, the thoracic segments and legs yellow. Head finely punctate, Description. front concave. Prothorax shining, subquadrate, with scattered punctures ; a small blunt-ellipti- cal area with a rasp-like surface situated medianly a short distance belowanterior margin ; disk with a longitudinal elongate elliptical depressionlaterally. Elytra striate-punctate, the sutural striae most p
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