FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE 



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Ophrida marmorea, Wiedem. 



REFERENCE. Wiedem. Zoo/. Mag. i, 2, p. 181 (1819). 



Habitat. Rangoon Forests, Lower Burma. 



Tree Attacked Holarrhina antidysenterica. Magayi Forest, Rangoon 

 Division. 



Beetle. Elongate-elliptical, shining. Head and prothorax and 

 legs red-brown ; elytra dark red-brown, mottled with light yellower 



patches. Front of head tuberculate, dull, 

 Description. very finely punctate. Prothorax rather 



flat, wider than long, anterior edge con- 

 cave, sides rounded with a constriction medianly ; disk surrounded 

 by a heart-shaped depression ; a few scattered rather large punc- 

 tures on basal area. Elytra convex, depressed apically, the sides 

 constricted to apex ; strongly punctate-striate. Under-surface dark 

 red-brown, shining, finely punctate ; femora of hind legs thickened. 

 Length, 12.5 mm. FIG. 185. 



Ophrida marmorea, 

 This chrysomelid does a certain amount of de- Wiedem. Lower Kimna. 



foliation in the beetle stage. I 

 Life History. found the insect feeding on the leaves of Holarrhina 



antidysenterica in the Magayi Forest of the Rangoon 

 Reserves on 8 February 1905. The tree formed the lower story of the 

 forest growth, and in the case of trees here and there a considerable 

 percentage of the leaves had been partially eaten by the beetle. 



HALTICA. 

 Haltica ? sp. 



REFERENCE. This beetle was identified at the British Museum as doubtfully a species of Haltica ; Steb- 



bing, Depart. Notes, i, 179 (1903). 



Habitat. Bombay Presidency. 



Tree Attacked. Boswellia serrata. Bhamburda Reserve, Poona. 



Beetle. A medium-sized thick-set insect with small yellow head and two prominent black 

 eyes. Thorax yellow, slightly broader than long, small. Elytra broader than thorax, yellow 



to brownish in colour, the yellow being generally in irregularly shaped 

 Description. faint blotches. At times a few faintly marked black spots are pre;-< 



In the $ the elytra are sometimes all yellow with scattered bn>\\nMi 



markings and small spots. The elytra are broadly striated with rows of punctures between 

 the striae, and are detlexed posteriorly, leaving one segment of the body exposed. Tin- Ixnh is 

 thick and pointed posteriorly, yellow to yellow-brown bciu-ath, ;m<l shining. Antennae and 

 legs canary-yellow, the former being slender and short. Posterior p;iir nt" legs are Ion- and 

 have their femora remarkably thickened and developed, thus enabling the insert to leap 

 the great distances it is capable of doing. These femora are at times dark ydlnv. to 

 brown in colour. The posterior tibiae are spinal at their bases. The third tarsal joint is 

 deeply bilobed. 



Length, $ ,";, in. ; $ ^ in. I'l. viii, tig. 4, in Depart. .\<>t<-s show , a dorsal and -ide view 

 of this chrysomelid. 



