Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . or long thought to contain the worst sal longicorn pe^ has shown that this is not so. The known Indian speci<-of importance, obesus, has, however, a wide range in the forest. Plocaederus obesus, (iahan. REFERENCES.—Gahan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) v, p. 51 and (6) vi, p. 259 (1890): Cotes (nee White), Ind. Mus. Notes, i, no. 2, pi. v, fig. 4 : .V.»i<<-/;.<»/;.<•. sp., Thompson. AY/V Ins,Injur. Woods and Forests, Allahabad (1878); Stebbing, /V/MJ/. Notes, i, 368 (1902 GahanCeramb. no. 117, p. 121 (1906). Habi
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . or long thought to contain the worst sal longicorn pe^ has shown that this is not so. The known Indian speci<-of importance, obesus, has, however, a wide range in the forest. Plocaederus obesus, (iahan. REFERENCES.—Gahan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) v, p. 51 and (6) vi, p. 259 (1890): Cotes (nee White), Ind. Mus. Notes, i, no. 2, pi. v, fig. 4 : .V.»i<<-/;.<»/;.<•. sp., Thompson. AY/V Ins,Injur. Woods and Forests, Allahabad (1878); Stebbing, /V/MJ/. Notes, i, 368 (1902 GahanCeramb. no. 117, p. 121 (1906). Habitat.—Throughout India, with the exception of the Honibay Presi-dency, from which at present there is no record of its presence Trees Attacked. —Sal (Shorca robusta) : Dchra Dun ; Odina ,r(//(T(Jhingham): Dehra Dun; Bombaxheptaphyllum: United Provinces Terai; llntcafrondosa (Dhak): United Provinces Terai; llomhax malabaricnin (Semul>:United Provinces; Spondias mangifcra : Tista Valley, Eastern 296 FAMILY CERAMBYCIDAE Chica-. (900 ft.)—Thapal, Saharanpur District; Mango (Mangifera indica] cole, Ganjam, Madras. Beetle.—The beetle is chestnut-brown in colourabove, clothed with a short dense tawny-grey pubes-cence, and lighter-colouredDescription. below, the legs and an- tennae being of the same colour as the upper surface ; the head, upper andlower edges of thorax, and outer and inner edges ofelytra, black. The head slopes forward at an angle,the eyes are kidney-shaped, the antennae taking offfrom the inner angle of the eye ; the first joint of theantennae is large and swollen, the remainder longand swollen at the nodes, where they are black ;they are longer than the total length of the insectin <J, of the same length or slightly shorter in !£.The thorax has a transverse ridge at upper andlower edges, and the vertex is covered with small raisedirregular transverse ridges ; the outer edges are pro-duced into a spine medianly. The elytra have adistinct
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