FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 213 



Larva.— Short, elongate, with a small brownish-yellow head, black mandibles, and a large, 

 flat, spherical segment following the head. The segments behind the large one are all very 

 much smaller in diameter and of approximately the same size save the last, which tapers 

 posteriorly. Length, | in. (see fig. 2 in pi. xii). 



The shape of the larva is most characteristic, and renders it easily distinguishaljle 

 from the longicorn pest {Nothorrhina, vide p. 281) with which it is occasionally found in 

 the tree. 



Little appears to be known upon the life history of this small buprestid. 

 Grubs of various sizes were taken by myself in the 



Life History. bast layer of chir-trees in the middle of October in 



Jaunsar in igo6, and it is probable that these grubs 



hibernate in this position in their larval galleries and pupate some time 



during the spring. The perfect beetle was found mature and issuing from 



the trees, or ready to issue, at the end of May (in Kumaun in 1908). 



Thus it appears probable that the life-cycle takes a year to pass through 

 from egg to perfect beetle, as is the case with the small deodar buprestid 

 described above. 



The egg is probably laid by the beetle in crevices in the bark of the 

 tree some time in June. The grub, on hatching out, at once tunnels down 

 into the bast layer and feeds in this, at first eating out a small gallery of 

 irregular shape ; as it grows larger the gallery increases in size and goes 

 down into the deep bast, and also grooves the sapwood (the smaller 

 galleries in fig. i, h, pi. xii). When full-fed the grub bores a short ellip- 

 tical tunnel down into the sapwood, and then eats out an elongate 

 pupating-chamber parallel to the long axis of the tree (top of fig. i, e). 



The larval gallery in the bast is blocked with excreta and wood-dust, 

 but that in the sapwood is free of both. The beetle, on maturing, crawls 

 up this empty larval tunnel, and, on reaching the bast, bores its way through 

 it and the bark and escapes from the tree. 



Anthaxia marshalli, sp. nov., Stebbing. 

 Habitat — Changa Manga, Punjab. 



Tree Attacked.— Sissu {Dalbergia sissoo). Changa Manga Plantation, 

 Punjab. 



Small, oblong, slightly convex. Head flat, coppery-green ; prothorax and elvtra brilliant 

 coppery ; under-surface coppery-green. Head very finely reticulate. Prothorax wide, sub- 

 quadrangular ; anterior margin sinuate, sides but slightly rounded ; 

 Description. finely reticulate and with very fine granulations, reticulations coarser 



laterally and posteriorly ; a prominent triangular depression in lateral 

 posterior half. Scutellum triangular. Elytra rather sharply sinuate at posterior coxae, 

 constricted apically, finely toothed in apical half, apices separately rounded with a small sutural 

 angle ; surface finely rugulose-granulose. Under-surface finely reticulate. Length, 5.75 mm. ; 

 width, 1.5 mm. Fig. 6 in pi. xv. shows the insect. 



