FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 



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CORAEBUS. 



Coraebus cingulatus, Hope. 



REFERENCE. Hope, Gray, Zool. Misc. i, 25 (1831). 



Habitat. Mussoorie, North-West Himalaya. Neither of the specimens 

 in the London and Berlin Museums bears any definite 

 locality. 



Shrub Attacked. Ritbus niveus. Mussoorie, North- 

 W est Himalaya. 



Beetle. Sub-parallel, rather widened in upper third, constricted at 

 extremity. Shining indigo blue with a green reflexion ; three transverse 



bands of dark violet purple in the apical half 

 Description. of the elytra, the area between these with a short 



light whitish pubescence. Prothorax channelled 



longitudinally on either side of the elytral depression. Elytra as wide 

 as prothorax at base, depressed on either side at base, the depressions 

 forming the prolongation of the prothoracic channels. Apex obliquely 

 truncate on either side between an outer long terminal spine and two 

 minor small teeth ; the suture gaping, ridged, ending in a small tooth 

 smaller than the inner pair of teeth. Length, 9 mm. ; breadth, '8 mm. 



FlG. 144. 

 Coraebus cingu- 



latns, Hope. 

 N.\V. Himalaya. 



I have taken this insect abundantly in Mussoorie, almost invariably 



on Rnbus niveus. The beetle is very plentiful from the 



Life History. beginning of July to the end of September, pairing during 



August and September. The eggs appear to be laid 



on the Rnbus, but I have never found the larvae. There is only one 

 generation of the insect in the year. 



AGRILUS. 

 Small, narrow, elongate beetles. 



Agrilus birmanicus, Kerremans. 



REFERENCE. Kerremuns, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxii, 211 (1892). 



Habitat. Changa Manga, Punjab. Also reported from Upper I'.iinna. 



Tree Attacked. Sissu (Dulhcr^ia sissoo). Changa Manga Plantation, 

 Punjab. 



Beetle. Elongate, very narrow ; black, uitli the sternal region dull purple. Elytra ea< h 

 with two white spots, one in the middle of the disk, the other at the apex, llc.ul deeply 



furrowed its entire length, and 1 uiili small tnins\<r^- rid 



Description. 1'roihorax as wide .it base as .it summit, nearly s<|ii.ire. longitudin.i Iv 



furrowed medianly \\ith wavj tiansverse ridges. Scutellum tra 



versely carinate. Elytra grannlose, \\ ith deep median lias.il impressions, sir. hii\ depri 

 along suture, sinuate at level of coxae, slightly widen, d in upper third, constricted at ap.-\, 

 latter with several very sharp teeth and a Ion;; median spine. Under-surface less rugose and 

 more shining than the upper ; legs very finely punctate. Length, <; mm. ; Im-adtli, .: nun. 



