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Title: Indian forest insects of economic importance. Coleoptera
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Stebbing, Edward Percy, 1870-1960
Subjects: Beetles Forest insects -- India Trees -- Diseases and pests
Publisher: London Eyre & Spottiswoode
Contributing Library: Earth Sciences - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ollected such informa-tion as was then procurable on the injurious insects of the Indianforests. The work was mainly compiled from Indian Museum Notes,with some few additions from observations made by myself. In this workthe only Scolytidae included were a Polygraphus sp., since described asPolygraph™ major, Steb. ; Pityogencs scitns, Blandford ; Xylebonis perforans,Wollaston; and undetermined species said to attack Qucrcus incana, sal,Iinns longifolia, and Finns gernrdiuiui. Since that date a considerable amount of investigation work hasbeen carried out regarding the relation of this family to the forests ofthe country by officers of the Department and others and by myself;many new species have been discovered, and valuable records on theireconomic importance have been compiled. This information is detailedin the following pages. Whilst some of it has been already publishedin my monographs and bulletins, much of it appears here for the firsttime. 41 51 61 71 81 91 HOlllFlill MJ3I 4
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V-t O otc ,. O y ^ t£ O — JU >— c - -J = 5 — FAMILY SCOLYTIDAE 471 I would wish to record my deep obligation to my former instructor inEntomology at the R.I.E. College, Coopers Hill, Mr. F. W. Blandford,himself a well-known authority on the family ; to Lieut.-Colonel F. Winn-Sampson, now engaged on work in this family and on the Platypodidae ;and to that eminent authority, Dr. Max Hagedorn, for the great assistanceso generously accorded me in this branch of my work. The Scolytidae have been recently subject to a complete revision* by that accomplishedscientist Dr. Hagedorn, and unfortunately this revision has led to the disappearance of several well-established generic names, whilst the name of the family knownClassification. to generations of foresters disappears. Dr. Hagedorn has but followed the commonly accepted dictum in scientific nomenclature that priority should be recognized in every case, but it is peculiarly unfortunate that the necessity shouldhave arise

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