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COLEOPTERA. 
Chrysomelince. —Free, leaf-feeding. 
Halticini. —Mining in leaf or plant, or tree. 
Galerucini. —Free, exposed, or in underground parts of plants. 
Hispince. —Mining. 
Cassidince. —Exposed, carrying excrement or having anal process. 
A great number of species have been described both in the older 
publications of Hope, Oliver, Illiger, Baly (Chennell’s Assam Collec¬ 
tion, etc.), and more recently by Jacoby, whose descriptions of the 
Cardon and Andrewes’ collections add mairc new species ( Ann. Soc. Ent., 
Beige, 1895, p. 252 ; 1897, p. 420 ; 1898, p. 185 ; 1903, p. 80 ; 1904, 
p. 380). The late Mr. Jacoby’s volume of the Fauna of India deals 
with the family as far as Eumolpince. 
Eupoda. —The Sagrincb are the first sub-family, with five species 
of Sagra in India. These are characteristic insects, of large size and 
brilliant colouring, of which the life-histor}^ is almost wholly unknown. 
The oval brown cocoons of S. boisduvallii were found at Buitenzorg 
in the hollow root of a tree (Rhizophora) in 1862, (Nederl. Tijdschrift 
V, p. 97), and it is known that in Java, Sagra Buqueti lays eggs on the 
bark of a tree, the larvae living in the tree and causing gall-like hypertrophy 
of the wood. The beetles are found upon plants, Sagra femorata, Dy., a 
metallic green insect, being the common species in India, found in forests. 
Donaciince are a small group, of which four species are Indian. 
The larvae of Donacia live in aquatic plants, the beetles in water or 
in the air. None appear to have been 
reared in India. Donacia ceraria, By., 
is found in the plains, though not 
commonly. Hcemonia , though not 
recorded as Indian, is also known from 
the plains. 
Criocerince. —A larger group with 105 
Indian species of which 80 are inclu¬ 
ded in Lema and 19 in Crioceris. 
The Ceylon forms are distinct and 
are treated by Jacoby as Malayo- 
Australian, only one occurring appar- Fig. 227.—Donacia recticollis. 
ently also in South India. 
