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Description. 
—Resembles that of X, slehUngi. 
Beetle . — Brown above ; with a greyish or yellowish pubescence 
covering the head and most of the prothorax and forms bands and spots 
on the eh’tra placed as follows : — 
(1) a transverse band on each at the base, followed a little behind 
by 
(2) a short transverse spot ; 
(3) a narrow band which begins near the scutellum, passes close 
to the suture, diverges a little from it posteriorly and at a 
shoid distance before the middle curves outwards to the side, 
thence it bends forward a little before reaching the margin ; 
(4) a narrow, obliquely transverse somewhat wavy band, placed 
a little behind the middle ; 
(5) an apical band, which is slightly produced forwards at the 
suture. Body beneath marked with spots or bands of whitish 
pubescence. 
Length 11 — 17 ; breadth 3 — 5 millim. (Descr. after Gahan). 
Plate IV, fig. 5, shows a dorsal view of this beetle. The beetle from 
which the drawing was made was much rubbed. 
Life History. 
Little is known on the subject of the life history of this beetle. It 
probably closely resembles that of X. stelbingi. 
The larva tunnels in the bast and wood of the oak {Onerous dilatata) 
in Bashahr. Specimens of the mature beetle were taken from the trees 
in August 1903 and sent to me by the Range Officer of the Kilba Range. 
Beyond this nothing is known about the insect. 
The damage done by it to the tree is probably the same as that already 
detailed for X. stelbingi. 
Protection and Remedies against the Longicorii Borers. 
Remedial measures in the forest for these longicorn beetle pests are 
somewhat difficult to prescribe as the insects are normally distributed 
throughout the area occupied by the tree. A point, however, which should 
always be borne in mind is that the egg is deposited by the beetles we 
have here considered on the bark of gi-een standing sickly trees or newly 
felled ones, and that the young grab requires at first the soft bast layer to 
