222 FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE 



UNDETERMINED BUPRESTIDS. 



/;/ Sandal-wood. At Dhimbun in North Coimbatore. in August 1902, I observed a 

 dead sandal-wood tree which had been badly infested by a buprestid. The bast layer 

 was riddled by the galleries of the larvae, each of which was some inches in length. The 

 grubs pupate in the sapwood. In one of the pupal chambers I took a beetle in a poor state 

 of preservation. It \vas, however, recognizable as a buprestid. This insect must be borne 

 in mind as a possible pest of the tree if it is at all abundant. 



/;/ Teak. At Natchoung on the Ataran River in Tenasserim I took a full-fed buprestid 

 grub from a pupal chamber between the bast and sapwood of a teak-tree blown down a few 

 months previously. The larva had fed in the bast and was about to pupate. 



