Part V. ] Beeson ; Larvae and Life Histories of Prionine Beetles. 19 
Larvae were collected by the writer on 17 th January 1918 at 
Bhelampur, Gorakhpur Division, U. P., in and near the roots of a dead 
sal tree affected by Poly poms slioreae. Some of the larvae had cons¬ 
tructed smooth-walled cells of mud and fragments of wood. Two were 
brought alive in artificial mud-cells to Dehra Dun and a further attempt 
made to breed out the beetle. [RRD. 392, BCR. 225]. The larvae 
were observed alive on 16-III-18 but dead on 13-YI-18. 
Summary. The larvae occur in and near the rotten roots of dead 
sal and shisham and construct earthen cells in the period November 
—January ; they normally live until April before pupating. Their 
occurrence is apparently secondary to the death of the tree. 
LOPHOSTERNUS HUGELI, REDTENBACH. 
Redtenbach, 1848, Hugel’s Kaschmir, IV, 2, p. 550, pi, 28, fig. 1. 
In Indian Forest Records, II (1909) Stebbing figures the larva 
of this species and gives a vague two-line description. The plate is 
reproduced as pi. XYII of Indian Forest Insects. The original larva 
from which the illustration was prepared is preserved in the Research 
Institute collection; on examination it proves to be that of a lamiid. 
There is no other material available. 
In this connection I give the description of a prionid larva taken 
boring into dead Quercus incana at Ramgarh, Naini Tal Division, U. P., 
3,000' C. F. C. B., 18-YI-1914. [Pr. T. No. 31.] 
HEAD (larva old with epistoma and mandibles very much worn) ; 
longer than broad; visible portion of head entirely black, transversely 
rugose behind epistomal ridge, median line impressed; on each side of 
the latter, opposite the prothoracic margin a raised semicircular rugose ; 
boss ; sides straight, posterior angles broadly rounded; Occipital foramen 
with front margin straight, slightly behind middle of head, anterior 
angles almost rectangular, sides very slightly curved; posterior emar- 
gination acute extending to the basal sixth of the dorsal surface; anterior 
foramen small, trapezoidal, sides converging posteriorly. 
Epistoma projecting over clypeus, concave, lateral angles obtuse, 
with a low rounded transverse ridge, separated from the epistome by 
a shallow interrupted furrow, lateral angles obscure; post condylar 
impressions of the epistome semicircular, margin carinate; antennal 
scrobeSy subquadrate ; raised in front and at the sides, depressed behind, 
pleural furrow well marked, obtusely angulate in middle; subfossal 
process obtuse, inconspicuous ; no ocelli. 
Clypeus retracted, anterior margin straight. 
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