326 GALL-MAKING BUPRESTIDS. 



cylindrical swellings away from the base of the stem on the 

 smaller roots which were found to contain beetle larvse, and after 

 opening several I was rewarded with a specimen of the perfect 

 insect. The galls are regular swellings of the rootlet, the young 

 larva apparently eating round between the wood and the bark ; 

 about an inch long, often tapering at the ends, and 6 lines wide at 

 the centre. 



The larva is a flat, slender, white grub, about 9 lines in length ; 

 jaws small, head segment much larger and rounder than the follow- 

 ing — 2nd and 3rd small, 4-llth flat, anal segment small and 

 bearing two sharply-pointed spines like a pair of calipers ; mouth 

 parts and anal appendages ferruginous ; all the segments flat, the 

 outer margins very thin and rounded, the divisions between the 

 segments very truncate. 



The perfect beetle is 4 lines in length, 2 lines in breadth, of a 

 much more brilliant reddish copper colour, and not striated or 

 punctured on the elytra like E. affine ; but the elytra are very 

 closely and minutely punctured, the greater portion being covered 

 with tiny little golden fish-like scales, forming regular scroll-like 

 markings of a very different pattern from the others. 



