FAMILY CERAMBYCIDAE 



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Beetle. Light brown. Head impressed with a median line. 

 Head and prothorax very finely granulate and dull. Antennae 



longer than body in male, not so in $ ; 



Description. third joint longest. Elytra somewhat 



glossy, very closely punctured ; each with 



seven raised lines, the third and fifth most prominent and con- 

 nected with one another, and the seventh by means of oblique 

 cross lines posteriorly ; the first runs close to posterior edge, the 

 sixth and seventh obsolete in front, and the sixth obsolete posteriorly. 

 Length, 12 mm. to 20 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. to 45 mm. 



This beetle has been taken in pupating-chambers 

 in the sapwood of the sal in the United Provinces and 

 Oudh. The grubs live in the bast layer, but the life Hypoeschrns indie us. 

 history has not been worked out. Gahan. $. x . 



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FIG. 198. 



XYSTROCERA. 



An important species with a wide distribution is known to infest 

 pyinkadu. 



Xystrocera globosa, Oliv. 



REFERENCES. Oliv. (Cerambyx) Entom. iv, no. 67, p. 27, pi. 12, fig. 81 (1795) ; Coquerel, Ann. Soc.Ent. 

 Fr. 1848, p. 180, pi. 7, iv, fig. 2, a, b (larva) ; Gahan, F.B.I. Ceramb. vol. i, no. 99, p. 106 (1906). 



Habitat. Salween River, Tenasserim ; Assam. Gahan gives India : 

 Mussoorie, Darjeeling, Assam, Madras, Mysore, Bombay ; Ceylon, Burma. 



Siam, Malay Peninsula, Java, Celebes, Philippines, 

 Egypt, Mauritius ; Hawaian Islands. 



Trees Attacked. Semul (Bombax malabaricum} : 

 Assam ; Pyinkadu (Xylia dolabriformis) : Salween River, 

 Tenasserim. 



Beetle. Reddish brown ; prothorax with the front and hind 

 borders, a narrow median longitudinal band (sometimes obsolete) 



and a broad lateral band, which in the 

 Description. $ runs obliquely from the side of thethot.ix 



in front towards the medio-basal lobe 

 behind, metallic blue or green ; elytra testaceous yellow, the out' t 



1 '99- and apical borders and, on each, a median longitudinal band, which 



Xystrocera rloaosa, . ,. 



Qij , "v anteriorly is directed oblique. y towards the shoulder, also metallic 



Assam; Burma. (/"./>'./.) blue or green. Head densely punctate. First joint of antennae 



asperate, with spiniform anterior process at the apex ; third to tilth 



strongly asperate, each in <J with apex thickened ami dentate beneath ; thud joint thicker and 

 about a quarter shorter than fourth. Prothorax densely and finely granulated on the disk in 

 c5, less densely so in $? ; prosternum of the male with a transversely striated gloss\ hand of 

 metallic colour close t'o the front margin, the rest dull red in colour. Elytra densely and 

 rather strongly punctured ; each with three slightly raised longitudinal lines two dorsal 

 and one lateral. Length, 15 mm. to 32 mm. 



Larva. The larva is bright yellowish white with a small brown head and black 

 mandibles. 



Pupa. White, and of ordinary longicorn shape. 

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