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FAMILY CERAMBYCIDAE 



In October 1907 the Extra Assistant Conservator of Forests in Balu- 

 chistan forwarded me a specimen of the female beetle 



Life History. of this insect. Towards the end of April 1909 Captain 



E. H. James, Officiating Political Agent at Fort 



Sandeman in Zhob, sent me a female specimen of this beetle, and in 

 December of the same year a male. Captain James's specimens were caught 

 on the wing in the station garden, but the specimen sent by the Extra 

 Assistant Conservator was found infesting Populus ciliata. It is difficult to 

 account for the males being taken in the late autumn and commencement 

 of winter, whilst the female was taken in the spring. It may be, however, 

 that the females hibernate and oviposit in the spring. 



The Extra Assistant Conservator took some grubs in the trees. 



Purpuriscenus montanus, White. 



REFERENCES. White, Cat. Col. B.M. Longic. p. 138 (1853) ; id. P.Z.S. 1850, pi. 8 ; Gahan, F.B.I. Ceramb. 



vol. i, no. 203, p. 186 (1906). 



Habitat. Tehri Garhwal, North- West Himalaya. Gahan gives West 

 Kashmir; Campbellpore ; Himalaya; Tibet. 



Tree Attacked. Blue Pine (Pinus exceha). Kulni, Tehri Garhwal 

 (V. Subramarian Iyer). 



Beetle. Relatively long and narrow for this genus ; variable in colour, sometimes 

 entirely black, most commonly black with the outer borders of the elytra to a greater or less 



extent red ; in some specimens the elytra are red with a broad black 



Description. band along the middle of each, and the prothorax is marked with a 



red spot or band on each side in front of the lateral spine. Head, 



prothorax, and elytra densely rugose-punctate, the prothorax sometimes with a smooth narrow 

 callosity in the middle. Antennae twice or nearly twice as long as the body in the g, shorter 

 than the body in the $ . Prothorax with a small acute tubercle on each side. Elytra long, 

 parallel-sided, rounded at apex. Femora sub-linear, very slightly thickened in middle ; first 

 joint of hind tarsus shorter than the next two joints united. Length, 1 1 mm. to 16 mm.; breadth, 

 3 mm. to 4^ mm. 



Whilst a student at the Imperial Forest 

 School at Dehra a specimen of this insect was 

 taken by Mr. V. Subramarian Iyer, of the Madras 

 Provincial Forest Service, from the sapwood of 

 the blue pine at Kulni in Tehri Garhwal on 18 Ma)' 

 1901. This is the only record I have of the 

 insect being taken from the tree. 



CHLORIDOLUM. 

 Chloridolum alcmene, Thorns. 



REFERENCES. Thorns., Syst. Ceramb. p. 568 (1865); Gahan, F.B.I. 

 Ceramb. i, no. 218, p. 199 (1906) ; Agric. Jour. Ind. i, p. 129. 



Habitat. Coorg, Nilgiris. Gahan gives As- 

 sam; Andaman Islands; Burma; Karenee (Fea); 

 Ruby Mines (Doherty). 



FIG. 234. 



Coorg. 



Tree Attacked. Orange (Citrus anrantinm}. Chloridolum alcmene, Thoms. 



Madras. 



