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It appears that comparatively little is knorvn regarding the external sexual characters of species in the family Scolytidæ. Indeed, the species of this family are among the most difficult of Coleoptera to study, or to properly identify, unless one has access to a large series of correctly named and classified examples.
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A. D. Hopkins (1894) studied this question.
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