Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . REFERENCE.—Stebbing, Depart. Notes (Hylesimts ? sp.) i, 258. Habitat.—North-West Himalaya. Tree Attacked.—Blue Pine (Pinus c.\celsa). Polygraphus nigra,Steb. a, beetle ; l>, egg-galleries in blue-pinebark. North-WestHimalaya. Beetle.—Cylindrical, black, mode-rately shining, head and thorax punctate,elytra striate and pitted. Head short,vertical ; finely rugose behind, with afew punctures anteriorly, pubescence yellow, stiff; Description. antennae brown. Prothorax slight-ly convex, half as wide again at baseas anteriorly; pu
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . REFERENCE.—Stebbing, Depart. Notes (Hylesimts ? sp.) i, 258. Habitat.—North-West Himalaya. Tree Attacked.—Blue Pine (Pinus c.\celsa). Polygraphus nigra,Steb. a, beetle ; l>, egg-galleries in blue-pinebark. North-WestHimalaya. Beetle.—Cylindrical, black, mode-rately shining, head and thorax punctate,elytra striate and pitted. Head short,vertical ; finely rugose behind, with afew punctures anteriorly, pubescence yellow, stiff; Description. antennae brown. Prothorax slight-ly convex, half as wide again at baseas anteriorly; punctate, the punctureslarge, deep, numerous ; a median longi-tudinal smooth line not reaching to .in-terior margin. Elytra rounded at theirposterior declivity ; nearly twice aslong as prothorax, longer than wide,slightly dilated at apex, moderately dull,with close scales ; striae faint ; pubes-cence short, whitish yellow. Legs fairlystout, with largish tibiae ; dark ferru-ginous. Tarsus yellowish brown. Length, mm. Fig. 337, a, shows a dorsal and aside view of this insect. Larva.—Pinkish yellow in colour,broadest anteriorly, corrugated and first hatched, yellow. FAMILY SCOLYTI
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