2i6 FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 



the larval gallery is filled ; the diameter of the tunnel is a quarter of 

 an inch. The beetle, on maturing, crawls up out of the pupal chamber 

 (the larva turning round in the pupal chamber so as to fs.ce upwards, as is 

 usually the case with these wood-pupating grubs), bores its wa}- out through 

 the bark above, and escapes from the tree. 



In the sapwood of a large Terniinalia tree which had been felled 

 some time in September or October the preceding year I took a number of 

 dead beetles in situ in their pupal chambers ; also a few fully-grown larvae. 

 An examination of the tree showed that the main bole had been attacked 

 from top to bottom by this insect, the major part of the bast having been 

 removed by the grubs. Most of them had matured and left the tree either 

 in December or January, the beetles found in the first week in March being 

 quite fresh, and, though dead, not yet dried and desiccated. The larvae 

 found were taken on g March, and were either very belated ones, or had 

 resulted from fresh eggs laid in the tree near the base of the butt (where the 

 sapwood was still moist) by the December or January generation of beetles 

 which had matured in the tree. The fact that a generation of the beetles 

 issues in the cold weather appears to render it certain that the insect passes 

 through at least two life-cycles in the \'ear, and there ma}' be more than two. 



From the data on its life history already known this small buprestid 



must be looked upon as one of the dangerous forest 



in the Forest pests. We do not yet know what trees, other than 



the Tcruiinalia, it infests, but it will probably be found 



to have several hosts. It is a hardy insect, and capable of increasing 



rapidly in considerable numbers when circumstances are favourable to it. 



Its life history consequently requires to be understood. 



Chrysobothris sexnotata, Gory. 



Referenxes. — Gory, Mon. Bupr. Suppl. iv, 159, t. 27, fig. 154 (1841) ; Thompson, Rep. Ins. Destr. to 



Woods and For. p. 12 (1868). 



Habitat. — United Provinces Sal Forests. Also reported from Malda 

 (Bengal) : Andaman Islands ; Hong Kong ; Java ; China. 



Tree Attacked. — Sal (Shorea robmta). United Provinces. 



Beetle. — Resembles i)idica. A green-bronze with violet reflexions, 

 the latter most visible on the elytra ; posterior margin of head brilliant 

 blue-green ; prothorax with the posterior angles 

 Description. a bright golden-red ; three bright green depres- 



sions on the elytra ; undcr-surface of head and 

 body and the legs coppery at sides, green in the middle. Head with the 

 transverse carina between the eyes more arched than in iiidica, and 

 Fig Id-" distinctly pubescent ; front rugose in appearance. Prothorax with a 



^1^ , ., ■ deep and rather dense punctation, the small transverse ridges more 



Chrysobothris 1 , ,, • 



sevnotala Gory regular and parallel than m itidica. Elytra regularly punctate, the three 



United Provinces &reen depressions as in indica; costae shorter and less well-defined, the 



sutural one most prominent. Under-surface punctate. Length, 10 to 



13.5 mm. ; breadth, 4.5 mm. to 5 mm. 



