FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE 



OXYCETONIA. 



Oxycetonia versicolor, Fabr. 



REFERENCE. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 1775, P- 5i ! Schaum. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1849, P- 264. 



Habitat. Dehra Dun. Common in the plains. 

 Tree Attacked. Rose-bushes. 



Beetle. Shining, small, reddish coppery ; margins of thorax, elytra, also along the 

 suture of the elytra, green ; dorsal surface of 

 the insect covered with small white spots, 

 being especially numerous on the elytra. 

 Length, 18 mm. 



FIG. 54. Oxyce- 

 tonia versi- 

 color, var. a. 

 (From F. B. I.) 



Not very 



much appears to be 

 known about the 

 Life History. life history of this 



insect. The beetle 



is very common in July and August 

 in Dehra Dun, when it feeds upon the 

 petals of roses and occasionally the 

 Hibiscus. 



FIG. 55. Oxyce- 

 tonia versi- 

 color, var. d. 

 (From F. B. I.) 



OREODERUS. 

 Oreoderus gravis, Arr. 



REFERENCE. Arr. Faun. B>-. Ind. Lamell. i, p. 288. 



Habitat. South Coimbatore, Madras. 



Trees Attacked. Bamboos (Dendro calamus strictus and Bambusa arun- 

 dinacea). Mount Stuart, South Coimbatore. 



Beetle. A small bulky weevil. Black, corrugated and crinkled, 

 the elytra flat on disk. Head concealed beneath the deeply chan- 

 nelled and coarsely rugose prothorax ; 

 Description. latter broadest behind the basal margin 



medianly produced. Elytra much broader 



than prothorax, flat on top, vertically depressed downwards laterally ; 

 apex truncate, leaving exposed a short broad pygidium ; depressed 

 and rugulose in middle, elevated laterally into a prominent ridge 

 which is prolonged into a short tooth at apex. Pygidium and under- 

 surface black, the body thick, legs rather elongate and slender, the 

 anterior tibiae with two large teeth on outer edge. Length, 9 mm. 



I took a specimen of this weevil on a thicket 



of young bamboos at the end of August 1902 at Mount Stuart in South 

 Coimbatore. It is the only individual of the species I have taken. 



FIG. 56. 



Oreoderus gravis, Arr. 

 South Coimbatore. 



