FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE 263 



LUPEROMORPHA. 



Luperomorpha weisi, Jacoby. 



REFERENCES. Jacoby, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii, 180 (1898) ; Ind. Mus. Notes, v, 125. 



Habitat. Chota Nagpur. 



Tree Attacked. Mango (Mangifera indica). Purulia, Chota Nagpur. 



Beetle. Small, shining. Chocolate brown, prothorax orange ; antennae chocolate, 

 femora of hind legs chocolate brown, rest of legs yellow, tarsi darker-coloured. Head vertical, 



eyes large, placed at sides, antennae long, slender, inserted in front, at 



Description. some distance from each other, and reaching to slightly below middle 



of elytra. Prothorax wider than long, sides rounded ; disk smooth, 



shining, and very finely punctate. Elytra impressed basally, smooth, glabrous, finely punctate. 

 Under-surface of abdomen yellow. 



This beetle was first reported from Ranchi in Chota Nagpur, and 



proved new to science. In August 1900 it was again 



Life History. sent to the Indian Museum, this time by Mr. W. H. P. 



Driver. Mr. Driver reported that the chrysomelid was 



destroying all his mango-trees. 



MlMASTRA. 

 Mimastra cyanea, Hope. 



REFERENCES. Hope, Gray, Zoo/. Misc. 1830; Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. Ixxxiii (1890). 



Habitat. Dehra Dun, North India. 



Tree Attacked. Grewia asiatica. Dehra Dun (Rogers). 



Beetle. -This small beetle is yellow in colour, shining, with filiform antennae about three- 

 quarters the length of the body. The head is small, round, and separate from the pro- 

 thorax. Prothorax quadrangular, slightly longer than broad. Elytra oblong-oval, diluted 

 behind and very obtuse. Legs longish. Length, 9 mm. 



The beetle appears on the wing about the middle of June or perhaps 



earlier, it having been found by Mr. C. G. Rogers, 



Life History. Deputy Conservator of Forests, defoliating trees on the 



i8th of the month. Neither larva nor pupa appr.us 



to have been noted, and no further observations on its life history are forth- 

 coming as regards the dates of the larval and pupal stages and the numl'iT 

 of generations in the year. 



This beetle was reported from the Dchra Dun district in 1896. .V. 



cyanea defoliates both young and old trees of the 



Relations to the S p ec ies Grewia <(SM/H . In the: attack noticed in 1896 



the beetles were said to havi- appr;nvd in l.ir-e numbers. 



flying freely and being sufficiently numerous to produce a humming noise as 

 of a swarm of bees passing overhead. The majority of the leaves were 

 badly eaten by 18 June, in many cases only a short piece of the base of the 

 midrib remaining intact. No birds were present feeding upon these beetles, 



