Mr. LraAcn's Essay on the Genus Melie: 41 
This insect was first taken in England by the celebrated orni- 
thologist Dr. Latham, from whose cabinet Mr. Marsham, con- 
ceiving it to be a new species, described it under the name of 
M. rugosus. It had however been figured and described in the in- 
valuable work of Monsieur Olivier some years before: but pro- 
bably that book had not reached England when Mr. Marsham 
wrote his Entomologia Britannica; which will account for his not 
quoting it. 
It has been taken in great plenty, near Margate in Kent, by 
that assiduous geome Mr. rege Milne, who avowed 
of that species » Mr Ps which you suppose to be M. autum- 
nalis of Olivier, I put a pair by themselves into a box, furnishing 
them frequently with fresh food. "They copulated ; and when the 
time came for depositing her eggs, the female not only passed 
through some earth which had adhered pretty. firmly to the bottom 
of the box and to the roots of the plants on which she fed, but 
also tore up the paper which lined the box. From this it may be 
inferred that they deposit their eggs at a considerable depth in 
the earth ; and there of course, when the larva breaks the °88 it 
can find no other food than the roots of gne ! | 
z ur. eA ntenne ders crassiores. 
4. MELÖE BREVICOLLIS. 
M. niger, thorace transverso brevi, elytris subrugosis. 
Tas. VI. Fig. 9. 
M. brevicollis, atra thorace transverso elytrisque subpunctatis. 
 Panz. Ent. Germ. 1. p. 351.6. 
| Faun. Germ. Init. 10. tab, 15. 
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