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L. bicolor, Selcnka (Australia). Mr. Binney writes thus of this 

 species, as occurring in the States of our Atlantic seaboard : " It 

 inhabits cellars and gardens in moist situations in the cities. It 

 is considered noxious to vegetation. It feeds upon the leaves 

 of plants in kitchen-gardens, and upon the remains of the cooked 

 vegetables and bread thrown out from houses. Its most common 

 habitat is in cellars, where it makes its presence most disagree- 

 able by attacking articles of food, and especially by insinuating 

 itself into vessels containing meal and flour. The young suspend 

 themselves b}' a thread of mucus. The period of its introduc- 

 tion is not known. It was noticed by Mr. Say more than fifty 

 years ago." 



The following merely nominal varieties are given by Lessona 

 and Pollonera : 



Yar. FLAVESCENS, Fer. Yellowish, maculations but little con- 

 spicuous. 



Var. RUFESCENS, Moquin-Tandon. Orange-brown, maculations 

 faint. 



Yar. VIRESCENS, Fer. Greenish gray, maculations faint. 



Yar. MACULATUS, Moquin-Tandon. Brownish, with black macu- 

 lations. 



Yar. TIGRINUS, Pini. Yellowish brown, variegated with black; 

 shield with large black maculations posteriorly, carina and 

 dorsal line yellowish brown. 



Yar. COLUBRINUS, Pini. Yellowish, with yellow and black macu- 

 lations. 



L. RAYMONDIANUS, Bourg. PL 49, fig. 73. 



Shortly carinate, brownish black, becoming yellowish brown 

 on the margins, foot light yellowish ash; back rather finely 

 reticulated ; shield smooth or lightly granular, oblong, rounded 



at the extremities. Length, 3 inches. 



Algiers. 

 L. YALENTINIANUS, Fer. PL 49, figs. 74, 75. 



Reddish brown, back and shield with two pale, broad-edged 

 black streaks ; dorsal keel white , shield short, rather truncated 

 behind ; respiratoi\y orifice posterior. 



Valencia, Spain, in gardens. 



