FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 219 



CORAEBUS. 



Coraebus cingulatus, Hope. 



Reference.— Hope, Gray, Zool. Misc. i, 25 (1831). 



Habitat.— Mussoorie, North-West Himalaya. Neither of the specimens 

 111 the London and Berlin Museums bears any definite 

 locality. 



Shrub Att&cked.—Rubus nivcus. Mussoorie, North- 

 W est Himalaya. 



Beetle.— Sub-parallel, rather widened in upper third, constricted at 

 extremity. Shining indigo blue with a green reflexion ; three transverse 

 bands of dark violet purple in the apical half 

 Description. of the elytra, the area between these with a short 



light whitish pubescence. Prothorax channelled 

 longitudinally on either side of the elytral depression. Elytra as wide 

 as prothorax at base, depressed on either side at base, the depressions ^^^ 



forming the prolongation of the prothoracic channels. Apex obliquely (^^,,.^j^,^^'^, ^.^■,]^,^_ 

 truncate on either side between an outer long terminal spine and two ^^^^^^^ p^^p^_ 

 minor small teeth ; the suture gaping, ridged, ending in a small tooth j^T^^r_ Himalaya, 

 smaller than the inner pair of teeth. Length, 9 mm. ; breadth, -8 mm. 



I have taken this insect abundantly in Mussoorie, almost invariably 



on Rubns nivcus. The beetle is very plentiful from the 



Life History. beginning of July to the end of September, pairing during 



August and September. The eggs appear to be laid 



on the Rubus, but I have never found the larvae. There is only one 



generation of the insect in the year. 



Agrilus. 

 Small, narrow, elongate beetles. 



Agrilus birmanicus, Kerremans. 



Reference. — Kerremans, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxii, 211 (1892). 



Habitat.— Changa Manga, Punjab. Also reported from Upper Burma. 

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

 Punjab. 



Beetle -Elon-ate, verv narrow ; black, with the sternal region dull purple. Elytra each 

 with two white spots, one in the middle of the disk, the other at the apex. Head deeply 

 furrowed its entire length, and covered with small transverse ridges. 

 Description. Prothorax as wide at base as at summit, nearly square, longitudmally 



furrowed medianly with wavy transverse ridges. Scutellum trans- 

 versely carinate. Elytra granulose, with deep median basal impressions, slightly depressed 

 along suture, sinuate at level of coxae, slightly widened in upper third, constricted at apex^ 

 latter with several very sharp teeth and a long median spine. Under-surface less rugose and 

 more shining than the upper ; legs very finely punctate. Lengtli, 9 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



