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APRIONA GERMARI,' 
HOPE. 
Olassification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Cerambycide. 
Sub-Family, Lamiide. 
Description. 
The /arva is a long, white, thick, grub witha well developed 
head, powerful mandibles, and large thoracic segments. It is 
legless, and when fully developed is about 3 inches in length 
and 4 an inch across the thoracic segments. 
The mature deet/e is 14 inches in length and is covered all 
over with a golden brown pubescence, Its elytra are rough and 
scarped at their anterior surfaces, where they are dotted with 
small black raised points. Colour is more golden on the under 
surface. Legs same colour as elytra, tarsus slightly darker. 
Specimens with this colouring were found in 1897. In 1898, 
one beetle taken resembled in form the above, but differed in 
colouration. The colour was a ditty yellow, but the elytra had 
several white blotches on them and there were two bright 
orange spots on the thorax. It differed also on the underside 
in having a broad white marginal band round the abdomen 
extending to the head, thus being unlike the uniform colouring 
_ of the other specimens. The first described specimens were 
identified for me by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, of the British 
Museum, as A. Germart. I have not seen the 1898 beetle. The 
difference in markings may be due to a difference in sex only. 
Pl. IV, fig. 3, shows the larva, pupa and imago. 
Life History. 
The larva of this beetle has been found infesting stems of 
the mulberry (Worus indica). Its presence has been known for 

1 The notes on this beetle have been drawn up from careful observations 
made by Mr. B. O. Coventry whenin charge of the plantation it infests, 
from observations made by the writer when visiting the plantation, and from 
the correspondence on the subject by Messrs. C. G. Rogers and B. O. 
Coventry, published in the /ndian Forester, Vol. XXIV, pp. 203, 204 and 
341—345; Vol, XXV, pp. 68, 69. 
