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hair or tufis on the front of the head and basal joint of antenna, joints 2 and 3 and 

 thighs and tibiae of legs densely pubescent ; apices of elytra fringed with hairs, giving 

 them a frayed appearance. On vertex of head, on a median longitudinal Hne on prothorax, 

 and on elytra, the dense pubescence is placed in the form of elongate yellow or brown 

 longitudinal lines and stripes, the lines curving inwards from shoulders and outwards again 

 in apical fourth. Length, 30mm. to 55 mm. 



But little appears to be known on the subject of the Hfe history. Indian 



Miiscuui Notes records that specimens of the insect were 



Life History. sent by the Conservator of Forests, Southern Circle, 



Madras, who reported that the beetles had been found 



ringing branches of WrigJitia tinctoria. The beetle rings stems and branches 



in a manner similar to that of Sihenias grisator, and for the same purpose. 



This appears to be all the record we have at present of this insect. 



The beetle was forwarded to me from Taunggyi by Mr. H. \V. Watson 

 with the oak borers Massicns and Ncoccrambyx, but the species of tree 

 infested in that locality by the beetle was unknown. 



Sthenias. 

 Sthenias grisator, Fabr. 



Referenxes. — Fabr. Maiit. i, p. 136; Ind. Mus. Notes, iii, p. no 



Habitat. — Kurnool, Coimbatore, Coorg. 

 Tree Attacked. — TaberncEmontana alba. 



Beetle.— Short, thick, squat, with short legs. Greyish brown 

 with white and brown irregular markings, the insect resembling a 



piece of mottled bark ; a large circular 

 Description. patch or "eye" in the anterior third of 



elytra, where they are depressed to apex, 

 the eye bordered on basal circumference by a velvety black edge, 

 the apical margin Hght grey. The mottled appearance of the y\(\. 



insect is produced by the different coloration of the dense pubes- Sthenias o-'risator 

 cence with which it is clothed. Head and prothorax are striped Fabr. Madras and 

 with longitudinal ridges of brown and grey; the antennae short, not Coorg. 



reaching to end of body. Elytra not much broader than prothorax, 



depressed behind, the apices truncate ; some irregular small black tubercles covered with 

 pubescence in the basal area, a prominent elliptical greyish spot medianly and the "eye "- 

 shaped patch in the apical third. Under-surface a uniform dull greyish brown. Length, 

 20 mm. to 30 mm. 



But little is known of the life history of this interesting little longicorn. 



The oldest specimen in the British Museum was received 



Life History. from Coimbatore with the note that the beetle "gnaws 



the bark of shrubs and is very destructive." Some 



thirty years later (in November 1892) the Collector of Kurnool collected 



some specimens of the beetle which he noticed cutting rings of considerable 



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