FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE 263 



LUPEROMORPHA. 



Luperomorpha weisi, Jacoby. 



REFERENCES.-Jacoby, Ann. Soc. Ent. Bclg. xlii, i8o (1898) ; Ind. Mus. Notes, v, 125. 



Habitat.— Chota Nagpur. 



Tree Attacked.— Mango {Mangifera indica). Purulia, Chota Nagpur. 



Beetle.— Small, shining. Chocolate brown, proth-orax orange; antennae chocolate, 



femora of hind legs chocolate brown, rest of legs yellow, tarsi darker-coloured. Head vertical, 



eyes large, placed at sides, antennae long, slender, mserted m front, at 



Description. some distance from each other, and reaching to slightly below middle 



of elytra. Prothorax wider than long, sides rounded ; disk smooth, 



shining, and very finely punctate. Elytra impressed basally, smooth, glabrous, finely punctate. 



Under-surface of abdomen yellow. 



This beetle was first reported from Ranchi in Chota Nagpur, and 



proved new to science. In August 1900 it was again 



Life History. sent to the Indian Museum, this time by Mr. W. H. P. 



Driver. Mr. Driver reported that the chrysomelid was 



destroying all his mango-trees. 



MiMASTRA. 



Mimastra cyanea, Hope. 



References.— Hope, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1830; Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. Ixxxiii (1890). 



Habitat.— Dehra Dun, North India. 



Tree Attacked.— Gr^wm asiatica. Dehra Dun (Rogers). 



Beetle.— This small beetle is yellow in colour, shining, with filiform antennae about three- 

 quarters the length of the body. The head is small, round, and separate from the pro- 

 thorax. Prothorax quadrangular, slightly longer than broad. Elytra oblong-oval, dilated 

 behind and very obtuse. Legs longish. Length, 9 mm. 



The beetle appears on the wing about the middle of June or perhaps 

 earlier, it having been found by Mr. C. G. Rogers, 

 Life History. Deputy Conservator of Forests, defoliating trees on the 



i8th of the month. Neither larva nor pupa appears 

 to have been notedrand no further observations on its life history are forth- 

 coming as regards tfre. dates of the larval and pupal stages and the number 

 of generations in the yeah*"" 



This beetle was reported from the Dehra Dun district in i8g6. M. 



cyanea defoliates both young and old trees of the 



Relations to the gpecies Grewia asiatica. In the attack noticed in 1896 



Forest. ^^^ beetles were said to have appeared in large numbers, 



flying freely and being sufficiently numerous to produce a humming noise as 



of a swarm of bees passing overhead. The majority of the leaves were 



badly eaten by i8 June, in many cases only a short piece of the base of the 



midrib remaining intact. No birds were present feeding upon these beetles, 



