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Larva segnis, corpus pectinesque arenulis tegens, man- 
dibulisque sub lateribus reconditis praedam expectans. 
Pullus capite majori. Pupa: corpus flavescens, cur- 
vum, obesum, lanuginosum, abdomine livido irrorato, 
lateribus prominulis, bullatis: linea dorsali nigra. Ca- 
put hirsutum. Mandibule ferruginez. Antenne supra 
oculos ad pectus reflexæ, capitulo evanido. Oculi ni- 
gricantes, bilobati. Folliculus arenulis colo anali mirè 
contextus, cuteque pellucido intùs tectus. 
Figures of the eggs, repagula, and larvæ, accom- 
panied the Communication. 
By the term Repagula (harriers), Mr. Lansdown 
Guilding designates certain attendants on the eggs, 
which he conceives to be without analogies in the ani- 
mal creation. “They are curiously placed in circles, 
and always on the extremity of a branch, so that nothing 
can approach the brood: nor can the young ramble 
abroad till they have acquired strength to resist the 
- ants and other insect enemies." The female ** may be 
seen expelling from her ovary these natural bodies with 
as much care as her real eggs." 
To the description of the egg of Xylocopa Teredo 
(Linn. Trans. vol. xiv. p. 314.) is to be added ‘ apici- 
bus rotundatis :" and to that of the larva of Horia ma- 
culata (Ib. p. 316.) ** corpus spinulis omnino indistinc- 
tis exasperatum. Trachee fusci. Mandibule ferru- 
gineæ.” Of the latter insect he states that several va- 
rieties exist, which will perhaps require hereafter to be 
regarded as so many species. The one figured Linn. 
Trans. vol. xiv. tab. 8, has the “ frons plana, ocello infe- 
riori in fossulà subovatá posito :" in another from South 
America, “porca elevata, bipartita, flexuosa, ocellos 
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