FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 195 



Acmaeodera Kerremansi, sp. nov. Steb. 

 Habitat. Changa Manga, Punjab. 



Tree Attacked. Sissu (Dalbergia sissoo). Changa Manga Plantation, 

 Punjab. 



Beetle. Head black, prothorax black, the lateral edges orange, not reaching to anterior 

 margins. Elytra black, traversed by numerous transverse wavy orange bands and spots, and 



covered with a short fairly dense white pubescence. Head finely ru- 



Description. gose. Prothorax flattened medianly, wider than long, anterior margin 



sinuate, median lobe wider, produced ; strongly and uniformly punctate. 



Elytra as wide as prothorax at base, widest in apical half, rather strongly constricted at apex ; 

 apices rounded, toothed ; punctate, the punctures set in longitudinal striae which are deepest 

 apical! y, becoming almost obsolete towards base. Length, 6.5 mm. ; breadth, 1.75 mm. The 

 curious transverse zig-zag orange markings on a black background of the elytra serve readily 

 to distinguish this beetle which is figured in pi. xv, fig. i. 



Specimens of this buprestid, which is new to science, and which I 

 take pleasure in naming after that great entomologist, 



Life History. my friend Monsieur C. Kerremans, were cut out of their 

 pupating-chambers in dying sissu-trees at the Changa 



Manga Plantation on 17 and 18 May 1905. One of the beetles had left the 

 pupating-chamber and had crawled up the entrance-tunnel and bored 

 through the bark before, from some unknown cause, it died. The larva 

 feeds in the cambium layer, where it eats out a winding gallery. When full- 

 fed it tunnels into the sapwood to pupate, the entrance-tunnel leading to the 

 pupal chamber being carried down at an angle. The eggs are laid on dying 

 and newly felled trees, the main stem and larger branches being attacked, 

 moderately thick bark being required for the sustenance of the grubs. 



Sub-family CHRYSOCHROINAE. 



Antennal pores diffused over both faces of the joints ; posterior femora 

 nearly contiguous, dilated on the inner side, compressed anteriorly by a 

 lateral prolongation of the abdomen, their anterior margin sinuous. th< 

 posterior oblique for the greater part and truncate on inner side : first 

 joint of posterior tarsi longer than the following one; scutellum invisible. 



This is a large sub-family, containing some of the biggest of the 

 Buprestidae known in India. Many of them are brilliantly-coloured, 

 handsome insects. 



CATOXANTHA. 



The elytral costae are thick and prominent. The genus contains some 

 of the largest known Indian buprestids. 



Catoxantha opulenta, Gory. 



REFERENCE. Gory, Rev. Mag. Zol. i 



Habitat. Chittagong Hill Tracts. Also reported from Borneo and 

 Penang. 



Trees Attacked. -Jarul (La^crstrinnia l : li^-Rc^iihic) ; ('hikr.issi (C/iick- 

 rassia tabularis}. Chittagong Hill Tracts. 



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