Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . first joint thick,Description. others subequal ; club oval, divided into four divisions by three transverse lines. Thorax not longer than broad, very convex, narrower infront than behind, the anterior three-fourths furnished with pro-minent, acute, tubercular projections set backwards, the basalportion, especially laterally, clothed with long yellow cylindrical, constricted and rounded posteriorly, veryslightly wider than thorax ; coarsely and irregularly rugulose andpunctate, and covered with a squamulose pubescence consis
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . first joint thick,Description. others subequal ; club oval, divided into four divisions by three transverse lines. Thorax not longer than broad, very convex, narrower infront than behind, the anterior three-fourths furnished with pro-minent, acute, tubercular projections set backwards, the basalportion, especially laterally, clothed with long yellow cylindrical, constricted and rounded posteriorly, veryslightly wider than thorax ; coarsely and irregularly rugulose andpunctate, and covered with a squamulose pubescence consistingof longitudinal rows of short silvery and reddish hairs. Legsreddish brown, pubescent; tibiae curved, and toothed on outeredge, clothed with a dense yellow pubescence ; tarsi yellowish,first three joints equal. Length, mm. I find C. indicus is preoccupied, so have pleasure in namingthis species after Herr Oberforster Strohmeyer. Egg.—White, oval, translucent. Larva.—Small, white, curved, and legless, with a yellowishhead and brown X12 6
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