220 FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 



A specimen of this buprestid was cut out of the pupal chamber in the 



sapwood of a large dying sissu-tree at the Changa 



Life History. Manga Plantation, Punjab, on 17 May 1905. An 



examination of the tree showed that the larval gallery 



is eaten out in the bast and sapwood of the tree, being carried in an 



irregular manner. 



Agrilus brevicornis, Guerin. 



Reference.— Guerin, Rev. Zool. 328 (1840). 



Habitat. — Pondicherry. 



Tree Attacked. — Albizzia Icbbek. Pondicherry. 



Beetle. — Bronze-green ; under-surface and legs covered with a whitish powdery pubes- 

 cence. Head as wide as prothorax, covered with fine longitudinal striae ; antennae short, 

 scarcely reaching the middle of the eyes. Prothorax slightly con- 

 Description, stricted behind, posterior edges sinuate ; finely and transversely 

 striate. Elytra with apices conjointly rounded ; finely punctate and 

 transversely striate. Length, 7 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



This beetle has been taken in August on the leaves of Albizzia Lcbbck. 

 Nothing further appears to be known on the subject of its life histor}'. 



Agrilus salweenensis, sp. nov., Steb. 



Habitat. — Tharrawaddy ; Salween River, Tenasserim. 

 Tree Attacked. — Pyinkadu (Xylia dolabviformis). Tharrawaddy and 

 Salween River. 



Beetle. — Very small, elongate, narrow ; antennae very short, dark emerald green ; front 

 of head brilliant bluish green ; vertex of head, prothorax, and elytra dark olive green, the 

 colour darkening on thorax and base of elytra ; under-surface bluish 

 Description. black, with a green reflexion. Front of head flat, finely granulose- 



punctate. Prothorax moderately convex, flattened on sides, anterior 

 margin sinuate, sides rounded in front, posterior angles obtuse ; surface covered with veiy fine 

 irregular transverse striae. Scutellum large, triangular, with a fine transverse impression 

 below the base. Elytra somewhat flattened, depressed on either side of suture in apical half, 

 slightly wider than thorax at base, depressed behind humeral angle, sinuous at level of pos- 

 terior coxae, widened in upper third, thence constricted to apex ; apices conjointly rounded ; 

 finely rugose and granulose ; under-surface finely granulose. Length, 5.25 mm. ; breadth, 

 1.5 mm. The insect is figured on pi. xv, fig. 7. 



Larva. — Small ; head bright yellow, followed by bright pink abdominal segments. 

 Length, 8 mm. 



I hrst took specimens of the small grub of this beetle in pyinkadu- 



trees in Tharrawaddy at the end of January 1905. 



Life History. The grubs were engaged in eating out small winding 



galleries in the bast and sapwood of recently felled 



trees. I subsequently, on 8 to 11 March, took specimens of the beetle 



just mature and other immature ones, with pupae in their pupal chambers, 



in a tree felled a few months previously at Kamamaung on the Salween 



River in Tenasserim. The insect was very abundant. 



