212 FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 



equal distances. Under-surface finely punctate, with patches of yellow on the head and 

 thorax, and a spot placed laterally on the terminal segment. Length, 17 mm. to 18 mm.; 

 breadth, 6 mm. to 6.5 mm. 



I took a specimen of this beetle on the bark of a Finns longifolia in 

 the Ravi Valley of the Chamba State, North-West Himalaya. I know 

 nothing further on the subject of its life history. 



Buprestis kashmirensis, Fairmaire. 



Habitat. Kalatope, Chamba, North-West Himalaya. 

 Tree Attacked. ? Oak (Quercus incana). 



Beetle. Brilliant green, the elytra with a number of prominent longitudinal carinae smooth 

 and darker green than the rest. Head wide, the front studded with an irregular network of 



raised prominences. Antennae short, toothed from fifth joint. Eyes 

 Description. large, prominent-elliptical, brown in colour. Prothorax wider than 



long, narrower in front than behind. A median longitudinal channel 



not reaching to base ; disk punctate, almost reticulate, the punctures and reticulations coarser 

 laterally, where there is a median depression near the margin. Scutellum bright coppery, the 

 centre deeply impressed and golden green. Elytra incurved and impressed behind the 

 shoulder, constricted behind, apex truncate with two small teeth. Six longitudinal and 

 very prominent carinae on each elytra, the sutural and marginal ones the least prominent, the 

 fourth from the suture reaching only half-way down the elytra, second and third joining to 

 form the outer tooth ; the spaces between the carinae set with a coarse granulation. Under- 

 surface coppery with a green sheen, punctate ; the first abdominal segment with a broad 

 longitudinal furrow medianly. Length, 22mm. ; width, 8.2 mm. 

 PI. xv, fig. 4, shows this beetle. 



I took a specimen of this beetle on an oak-tree in the Kalatope Forest 

 in Chamba on 23 May 1909. This insect has but recently been described. 

 Only three specimens are known to Kerremans, who states it to be very 

 rare. 



ANTHAXIA. 

 The two species of this genus I have taken in trees prove new to science. 



Anthaxia osmastoni, sp. nov., Stebbing. 



REFERENCE. Stebbing, Ind. For. Mem. Zool. Ser. vol. ii, pt. ii, p. So (1911). 



Habitat. Kumaun, Western Himalaya. 



Tree Attacked. Pinus longifolia. Bellek, etc., Kumaun. 



Beetle. Front of head golden green, vertex golden. Prothorax golden green, disk golden 

 with a coppery reflexion. Elytra darker greenish blue with a blue reflexion, the apical portion 



darkest. Under-surface golden with greenish reflexions. Front of 

 Description. head flat, finely reticulate, the reticulations on vertex very fine. Pro- 



thorax broad, sub-quadrangular, depressed laterally on either side in 



basal half ; anterior margin sinuate, sides rounded ; surface reticulate, more strongly so on 

 lateral portions. Scutellum heart-shaped. Elytra flat, except near base, where they are irregu- 

 larly elevate above a transverse basal depression ; sinuate at level of posterior coxae , sharply 

 constricted behind, very finely toothed in apical fourth ; apices separately rounded ; surface 

 uniformly and finely rugulose-granulose. ^ength, 7.2 mm. ; breadth, 2.2 mm. ;The beetle 

 is figured in pi. xv, fig. 5. 



