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Babu B. Sen Gupta, whilst on tour with the Imperial Forest School in 



May 1902, found a specimen of this undetermined 



Life History. hrenthid horinj; into the dead bark of a Finns longifolia 



tree at Thadiar in the Jaunsar Himalaya. Nothing 



further appears to be known on the life history of the insect. 



Pkophthalmi's. 

 Prophthalmus tridentatus, Fabr. 



Reference.— F. Syst. El. ii, p. 554; Lund. Skrivt. a/, natnrhist selskab. v, 2, p. 91 (1S02). 



Habitat. — Darrang, Assam. 



Tree Attacked. — Ptcrospennuin accvipdiinn. Ikilipara Reserve, Darrang. 



Beetle.— Elongate, moderately thick. D.irk red-l:)ro\vn to Ijlackish in parts. Elytra 

 lighter with several orange spots and patches. Head small, punctate and caniculate medianly 



in front ; rostrum moderately 

 Description, lo'ig, curved,'the antennae taking 



otT from near base. Prothorax 

 widest just above base, narrowed in front ; a trans\erse 

 channel above basal margin ; very shining and smooth 

 on disk. Elytra very strongly striate, the punctures small, 

 sides straight to near apex, thence constricted ; a short 

 thickened longitudinal orange-yellow shining carina pro- 

 jects upwards from base on each side of suture ; two 

 irregular orange patches, one placed medianly and 

 laterally, the other in the apical third, and a longitudinal 

 short one near apex. Legs rather short. Length, 

 16.5 mm. 



Pupa — Elongate. Orange yellow, with a long dark 

 brown rostrum pressed down against chest. Length. 

 17 mm. 



Fig. 263. 



PropJitJiaimiis /rufeii/a/i/s, V. 



Male (left) and female. 



]Jarrang, Assam. 



From a fallen Pterospcnmun acerifvlimn tree, still fresh and sapp\-, I cut 

 out two pupae from their pupal chambers in the sap- 

 Life History. wood. The chambers were elongate and parallel to the 

 long axis of the tree, and abotit half an inch down in 

 the sapwood. From one of these pupae I was able to rear a beetle. 



The pupae were taken on 14 April 1906 in the Balipara Reserve in the 

 Evergreen Forests belt of the Darrang Division. The beetle assumed its 

 full coloration on 2 Mav following:. 



Zemioses sp. 



Refekenxe.- Steb. Bi-enihus, Ass. Sal Insects, For. Bull. no. ii, p. 43 (1907). 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Tree Attacked. — Sal (SJwrca robustu). Kachugaon, Goalpara. 



