Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . E.—Burm. Handb. iv, i, p. 471. Habitat.—Gorakhpur, United Provinces. Tree Attacked.—Sissu (Dalbergia sissoo). Gorakhpur (A. E. Osmaston). Beetle.—Elongate, small, yellow, the elytra lighter-coloured than thorax. Head black,shining, densely punctate, covered with a short white villosity ; eyes large, placed at sides at base. Prothorax wider than long, sides rounded ; finely and denselyDescription. punctate, and covered with the short white pubescence. Scutellum large. Elytra wider than thorax, widest in apical third, thence constricted a
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . E.—Burm. Handb. iv, i, p. 471. Habitat.—Gorakhpur, United Provinces. Tree Attacked.—Sissu (Dalbergia sissoo). Gorakhpur (A. E. Osmaston). Beetle.—Elongate, small, yellow, the elytra lighter-coloured than thorax. Head black,shining, densely punctate, covered with a short white villosity ; eyes large, placed at sides at base. Prothorax wider than long, sides rounded ; finely and denselyDescription. punctate, and covered with the short white pubescence. Scutellum large. Elytra wider than thorax, widest in apical third, thence constricted and conjointly strongly punctate, and weakly striate ; the tibiaestrongly spined. Length, mm. This beetle was taken by Mr. A. E. Osmaston,, on the sissu at Pakri inLife History. the Gorakhpur Division. Hefound the insect in numbers de-foliating the trees in the first half of May, both oldtrees and saplings suffering from the attack of thebeetles. No further observations on its life historyappear to have been FIG. 50.—Adoretuscaliginosus^ FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE 87 Adoretus caliginosus, Burm. var. bicolor, Brenske. This variety has the head wholly fuscous and the pygidium slightlypubescent. The insect is said to be widely distributed throughout India. It wasreported as defoliating rose-bushes in the Botanical Gardens, Bangalore, incompany with A. bangalorensis. Adoretus bangalorensis, Brenske. REFERENCE.—Brenske, Ind. Mus. Notes, v, 38. Habitat.—Bangalore. Tree Attacked.—Rose-bushes. Beetle.—Head large, brown, slightly metallic ; clypeus round, front small ; posteriorangles of prothorax rounded ; elytral costae fine, uniformly pubescent ; tarsi small, thejoints close together ; pygidium densely pubescent, apex slightly black. This beetle has been reported as defoliating rose-bushes in the BotanicalGardens at Bangalore. Adoretus cardoni, Brenske. This insect (Brenske, described in Ann. Soc. Ent. Bclg. vol. xxxii
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