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Lampra. 

 A new species of this genus was taken on young india-rubber plants 

 in Assam. 



Lampra assamensis, sp. nov., Stabbing. 



Habitat. — Darrang, Assam. 



Tree Attacked. — Ficus elastica. Charduar Rubber Plantation, Darrang, 



Assam. 



Beetle. — Elongate, constricted behind, with brilliant metallic colouring. Head purple in 

 centre, metallic blue-green on either side. Disk of thorax purple, with a longitudinal median 



area green, the lateral margins green anteriorly, the basal half crimson. 

 Description. Scutellum light blue-green. Elytra with basal margins green, merging 



into dull coppery medianly, this latter colour produced in a longi- 

 tudinal median dull band to apex, a broad, crimson, longitudinal band laterally ending in the 

 apical fourth, the band interrupted by purple patches. A yellow coppery spot immediately 

 behind the band, apical fourth coppery-purple. Head strongly rugose-punctate, with a frontal 

 median d. pression and a weak longitudinal line basally on vertex. Prothorax much wider 

 than long, anterior margin weakly sinuate, sides rounded, base bisinuate, median lobe produced ; 

 rather finely rugose-punctate, coarsely so laterally, the purple areas on disk sparsely punctate. 

 Elytra slightly wider than thorax at base, sides sinuous at level of posterior coxae, thence 

 constricted sharply to apex, the edges, in slightly over apical half, toothed ; apices separately 

 rounded and toothed ; striate-punctate, the striae most prominent on apical sutural two-thirds ; 

 the punctures tine, densest laterally. Under-surface brilliant coppery-green. Abdominal seg- 

 ments crimson. Length, 9.5 mm. ; breadth, 3.1 mm. The species is figured in pi. xv, fig. 3. 



I took a specimen of this brilliantly-coloured buprestid in April 1906 

 on a leaf of one of the young eight-foot sapling plants 



Life History. in the rubber nursery at Charduar in Assam. When 



disturbed the beetle feigned death, and dropped to the 

 ground. The msect proves new to science. 



BUPRESTIS. 



Buprestis (Ancylocheira) geometrica, Cast, et Gory. 



References.— Cast, et Gory, Mon. Bupr. i, 141, pi. 35, fig. 194 (1837) ; decemnotata, Cast, et Gory, id. 

 133. pl- 33. fig- 184 ; aurantiopicta, Cast, et Gory, id. fig. 183 (next text). 



Habitat. — Ravi Valley, Chamba, North-West Himalaya. Also reported 

 from Simla, Himalaya, Bengal, 



Tree Attacked. — Pinus longifolia. Chamba, Ravi Valley. 



Beetle. — Elongate, finely granulose. Dull bronze or black, with yellow or yellowish-red 



spots on elytra ; under-surface and legs coppery-bronze. Head broad, finely punctate, front 



yellow, with two small black spots placed one on each side of a 



Description. middle line, a small depression on vertex placed medianly behind the 



yellow patch. Prothorax broader than long, punctate, with here and 



there small smooth areas ; a yellow spot at lateral edges and on lateral halves of anterior 



margin. Elytra slightly wider than thorax at base, constricted in upper fourth and truncate, 



the extremities weakly sinuate ; striate-punctate, with four largish orange patches placed on 



external half of each elytron, the upper one near the humeral angle and coming down on to the 



lateral edge, the basal irregularly triangular, not reaching apex, the other two between these at 



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