FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE 



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more especially the mid-rib and sometimes the young shoot. The parts 

 attacked turn brown, and on the mid-rib and shoot a scar is left, and the 

 woody portions become subsequently affected. I am inclined to suspect that 

 this damage is done by a small beetle allied to the Rose beetle; for, though 

 I have never found this on the mahogany, it is plentiful on the neighbour- 

 ing blackwood trees, where it damages the flower and flower-stalks in a 

 similar manner. I notice that it emits a black fluid, which appears to be 

 injurious to the leaves." 



LEPIDIOTA. 

 Lepidiota bimaculata, Saund. 



REFERENCES. Saund. Trans. Ent. Soc. ii, 176 t. 16, f. 2 (1839) ; Burm. Handb. iv, 2, 294 ; Gem. Har. Cat. 

 Coleopt. iv, 1163 ; Griffithi, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Hi, 62 (1841). 



Habitat. Assam. Also reported from Sikkim, Naga Hills, Khyok- 

 phow. 



Tree Attacked Sal (Shorca robust a}. Assam. 



Beetle. A large beetle. Head, prothorax, and 

 pygidium dull green, elytra brown, dull or slightly shining ; 



under-surface black, clothed with 

 Description. a short greenish-yellow pubes- 



cence. Legs black. Head nar- 

 rower than prothorax, dull, punctate. Prothorax wider 

 than broad, sides curved and finely serrate ; finely 

 punctate. Scutellum large, heart-shaped, finely punctate. 

 Elytra convex, finely punctate, widest medianly, basal 

 angles rounded, constricting from middle gradually to 

 apex, latter truncate ; pygidium depressed. Anterior 

 tibiae broad and three-spined. Under-surface convex, 

 shining where pubescence has been rubbed off. Length, 

 46 mm. to 57 mm. ; breadth, 24 mm. to 29 mm. 



I took specimens of this insect in May 



in the Assam sal forests. 



Life History. The beetles were noticed 



sitting on leaves and twigs 



& . FIG. 41. Lefiidiota 



of sal-trees, and one specimen was seen to Saund. Assam. 



be feeding on the leaf parenchyma, eating 



out holes in the leaf. I know nothing further about its life history 



L.At IINCSl KKNA. 



Lachnosterna (Holotricha) problematica, P.n nske. 



REFERENCE. Brenske, Ind. .V/i.s. AD/, iv, p. r. 



Habitat United Provinces Sal Forests. Also reported from Snna^.ir. 



Trees Attacked. Sal (Shores n>l>n^a\ : Horai, Knm.mii, and Gorakhpur; 

 Terminalia bdcricu, Jaman (Eugenia jauibnlania > : Gorakhpur 

 Osmaston). 



