TWO PHILIPPINE LEAF-MINING BUPRESTIDS, ONE 
BEING NEW 1 
By Charles S. Banks 
Professor of Entomology , University of the Philippines 
THREE PLATES 
Buprestidse are metallic beetles the larvae, or grubs, of which 
are called flat-headed, or hammer-headed, borers. They are 
usually wood borers, but Kellogg 2 states that the smaller species 
sometimes mine in leaves or live in galls. Comstock 3 says : 
In some of the smaller species the larvae are cylindrical, and are furnished 
with three pairs of legs. These are leaf miners; and in the adult state 
the body is much shorter than in the more typical species. 
It is true that the larvse here under discussion are somewhat 
more cylindrical than is usual in this family, but there is ab- 
solutely no indication of legs, while the adults conform to the 
description given by Comstock. It may be that larvae of Bu- 
prestidae from other parts of the world are provided with legs, 
but Schiote 4 says of the buprestid larva “pedes nulli,” and his 
figures of the larva of Trachys minuta L. very strongly resem- 
ble those of this species, which is closely related. 
The occurrence of these larvse in leaf mines is so rare, how- 
ever, that a note concerning two species may be of interest, 
especially as the insects attack a plant of some economic im- 
portance because of its use as an ornamental. 
The two species under consideration are Endelus bakeri 
Kerrem., 5 a small beetle not more than 4.5 millimeters in length 
and particularly noteworthy because of its prominent eyes, 
which are placed on conical, tubercular projections of the epi- 
cranium ; and E. ealligraphus, a new species. 
1 From the department of entomology, College of Agriculture, University 
of the Philippines, Los Banos. 
“American Insects (American Nature Series) (1908) 266. 
* Manual for the Study of Insects (1896) 549. 
4 De Metam. Eleuth. 0bs., Naturh. Tidsskr. 6 (1876) 361, pi. 2, figs. 
18-22. 
5 Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 9 (1914) 88. 
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