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The two beetles Myelophilus minor Hart, and Myelophilus piniperda Linn, belong to the family Scolytidæ (the Ipidæ of Hagedorn), of the series Rhynchophora or snouted beetles.
The genus Myelophilus Eichhoff has the following characters: (1) the biting edges of the maxillæ are beset with spines, (2) third basal tarsal joint broadened out, (3) head with rostrum visible, (4) funiculus of antenna six-jointed, (5) club of antennæ not quite round but somewhat pointed at the apex, (6) head and thorax with outstanding hairs, (7) front edge of thorax not depressed in the middle.
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page 213 note † Ibid.
page 215 note * W. J. Eichhoff, Die europaischen Borkenkäfer, p. 101.
page 217 note * In this description of the larva I have followed the terminology of Hopkins, “The genus Dendroctonus,” U.S. Bureau of Entomology, Bulletin No. 83, part i, p. 11, 1909.
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page 223 note * Nusslin, “Über Generation und Fortplanzung der Pissodesarten,” in Forstlich naturwissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift, 1897.
page 223 note ‡ Macdougall, “Ueber Biologie und Generation von Pissodes notatus,” in Forstlich naturwissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift, part v, 1898. “The Biology of the Genus Pissodes,” in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1900.
page 223 note § Nusslin, Leitfaden der Forstinsektenkunde, 1905 and 1913.
page 223 note ∥ Knocke, “Beiträge zur Generationsfrage der Borkenkäfer,” Fortwiss. Centralblatt, 1900 and 1904.
page 223 note ¶ Fuchs, Über die Fortplanzungs verhältnisse der rindenbrutenden Borkenkäfer, 1907.
page 223 note ** Hagedorn, “Fam. Ipidæ,” in Genera Insectorum, 1910.
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page 231 note * These Nitulid beetles feed on a number of bark-boring and bark-infesting species, Curculionid and Scolytid. See Macdougall, “On the Life-history and Habits of Rhizophagus depressus F.,” Notes of Royal Botanic Garden, No. iii, 1900; also the same Journal for the life-history and habits of Clerus formicarius, by Macdougall.