FAMILY CERAMBYCIDAE 



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Beetle. — Light brown. Head impressed with a median line. 

 Head and prothorax very finely granulate and dull. Antennae 

 longer than body in male, not so in $ ; 

 Description. third joint longest. Elytra somewhat 



glossy, very closely punctured ; each with 

 seven raised lines, the third and fifth most prominent and con- 

 nected with one another, and the seventh by means of oblique 

 cross lines posteriorly ; the first runs close to posterior edge, the 

 sixth and seventh obsolete in front, and the sixth obsolete posteriorly. 

 Length, 12 mm. to 20 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. to 45 mm. 



This beetle has been taken in pupatin^-chambers 

 in the sapwood of the sal in the United Provinces and 

 Oudh. The griibs live in the bast layer, but the life Hypoeschrus indiciis, 

 history has not been worked out. Gahan. $. x ^. {F.B.I.) 



Xystrocera. 



An important species with a wide distribution is known to infest 

 pyinkadu. 



Xystrocera globosa, Oliv. 



References. — Oliv. (Cerambyx) Entom, iv, no. 67, p. 27, pi. 12, fig. 81 (1795) ; Coquerel, Ann. Soc.Ent. 

 Fr. 1848, p. 180, pi. 7, iv, fig. 2, a, b (larva) ; Gahan, F.B.I. Ceramb. vol. i, no. 99, p. 106 (1906). 



Habitat. — Salween River, Tenasserim ; Assam. Gahan gi\-es India : 

 Mussoorie, Darjeeling, Assam, Madras, Mysore, Bombay ; Ceylon, Burma. 

 ^ ^ Siam, Malay Peninsula, Java, Celebes, Philippines, 



Egypt, Mauritius ; Hawaian Islands. 



Trees Attacked. — -Semul {Boinbax nialabaricuui) : 

 Assam ; Pyinkadu {Xylia dolahrifovinh) : Salween River, 

 Tenasserim. 



Beetle. — Reddish brown ; prothorax with the front and hind 

 borders, a narxow median longitudinal band (sometimes obsolete) 

 and a broad lateral band, which in the 

 Description. $ runs obliquely from the side of the thorax 



in front towards the medio-basal lobe 

 behind, metallic blue or green ; elytra testaceous yellow, the outer 

 and apical borders and, on each, a median longitudinal band, which 

 anteriorly is directed obliquely towards the shoulder, also metallic 

 Assam • Burma^ (/^.Z?./.) t>li-ie or green. Head densely punctate. First joint of antennae 

 asperate, with spiniform anterior process at the apex ; third to fifth 

 strongly asperate, each in $ with apex thickened and dentate beneath ; third joint thicker and 

 about a quarter shorter than fourth. Prothorax densely and finely granulated on the disk in 

 (J, less densely so in $ ; presternum of the male with a transversely striated glossy band of 

 metallic colour close to the front margin, the rest dull red in colour. Elytra densely and 

 rather strongly punctured ; each with three slightly raised longitudinal lines — two dorsal 

 and one lateral. Length, 15 mm. to 32 mm. 



Larva. — The larva is bright yellowish white with a sniall brown head and black 

 mandibles. 



Pupa. — White, and of ordinary longicorn shape. 



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Fig. 199. 



Xystrocera globosa, 



Oliv. $. 



