Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . o show that this in-sect is both hardy and hasgreat powers of self-repro-duction. It is therefore onewhich may cause consider-able trouble in the of the trees it in-fests are for a variety ofpurposes of importance tothe forester, and therefore,whenever possible, practicalprotective measures shouldbe enforced against most important are : (i) Removal of dyingand sickly trees from theforest. (ii) Bark all fellings,whether poles in thinningsor mature timber, as soonas made. (iii) If it is not pos-sible to bark the fel
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . o show that this in-sect is both hardy and hasgreat powers of self-repro-duction. It is therefore onewhich may cause consider-able trouble in the of the trees it in-fests are for a variety ofpurposes of importance tothe forester, and therefore,whenever possible, practicalprotective measures shouldbe enforced against most important are : (i) Removal of dyingand sickly trees from theforest. (ii) Bark all fellings,whether poles in thinningsor mature timber, as soonas made. (iii) If it is not pos-sible to bark the felledmaterial, whether poles orlogs or unbarked fuel-wood, it should be re-moved from the neighbour-hood of the forests by theend of April. Predaceous , sp.—Thegrub of this beetle is pre-daceous upon the larva, Kln stem of Hi/tea pupa, and immature beetle >™*»* J»adl infested by Plocaderus dbesus TherV»/ 7 Rrub was taken from a ol this beetle. Siwaliks, ot Plocadcnis obesns. X. 300 FAMILY CERAMBYCIDAE Grub.—The larva is an elongate yellow grub, consisting of a square blackhead with large stout mandibles. The thoracic segments are squarish, eachhaving a stout dorsal hard chitinous brown shining plate, and a pair of long-jointed legs. The body segments are flat, yellow, darker medianly, the eleventhending in a stout sucker leg. The twelfth ends in a pair of stout black callipers. Beetle.—I have not yet taken the beetle. Life History.—The grub of this insect was taken in December inside abroken calcareous cocoon in which it was curled up, apparently hiber-nating or pupating. The cocoon was situated in a pupal chamber inthe heart of a Butea frondosa tree which had recently died and was verybadly infested by the longicorn, a large number of cocoons containingliving beetles in situ being taken from pupal chambers in the heart-wood of the tree. In or alongside the broken cocoon containing this grubwere the remains of the immature beetle it h
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