284? Mr. A. White on the Pupa- case of a Coleopterous Insect. 



6-12-flori, pedicelli angulati, 4-5 lin. longi (in fructu 7 lin.), 

 apice incrassati, calyceque granuloso-lepidoti, flavescentes ; 

 calyx tubulosus, 2 J lin. longus, 2 lin. diam., margine fere in- 

 tegro, vix 5-denticulato, coroUam arete cingens. Corolla extus 

 albida aut flavescens, lepidoto-pruinosa, in alabastro 5-angu- 

 lata, sestivatione valvata ; petala 5, linearia, 10 lin. longa, 1 lin. 

 lata,intus callo apicali marginib usque tomentosis, medio glabra, 

 parallele nervosa, crassiuseula ; stamina 10, petalis breviora, 

 tilamenta 7 lin. longa, cum petalis orta, iisque imo laxe con- 

 glutinata^ complanata_, tenuia, linearia, antheris latiora, glabra, 

 sed infra antheras fasciculo den so pilorum barbata ; antherse 

 S^ lin. longae, lobis sejunctis, parallelis, filamento omnino 

 adnatis, pelliculares, sparse stellato-pilosse. Ovarium de- 

 pressum, apice subconico vel umbraculiforme 5 -sulcatum, 

 1 lin. diam., albido-pruinosum, imo constrictum et hinc gla- 

 brum. Stylus tenuis, glaber, 9 lin. longus. Stigma sub- 

 obsoletum. Bacca oblonga, flavido-viridis, glauco-pruinosa, 

 3 lin. longa, 4 lin. diam.* 



The Strigilia australis, Juss., is Pennantia Cunninghamiy Nob. 

 (huj. op. ser. 2. ix. 491). 



[To be continued.] 



XXXI. — Spicilegia Entomologica. — III. Note on the Pupa- 

 case of a Coleopterous Insect from Northern China. By Adam 

 White, A.Z.D. British Museum, Corr. M.L.S. Lyons, &c. 



[With a Plate.] 



It would be well if some of the acumen displayed by that well- 

 exercised army of Lepidoptera-collectors in this and other coun- 

 tries were shown by those who study and collect Coleoptera. 

 To go no further than these islands : the Doubledays (the late 

 Edward and his surviving brother Henry, of Epping) — the 

 Stan dishes — Douglas — Stainton, and many others reared by 

 Stainton's energy, example, and encouragement, — ^have done, 

 and are doing, good work. Mr. Logan, of Duddingston in 

 Scotland, who draws and observes well; Charles Turner, a 

 keen observer, and the able Peter Bouchard (the two latter 

 both excellent collectors) have done much to make us ac- 

 quainted with the transformations of Lepidoptera. In other 

 words, these and other observers have assisted greatly in clear- 

 ing up the history of our Lepidoptera. Those most able ob- 

 servers, naturalists, and artists, John Curtis, F.L.S., and J. O. 



* The structure of the seed is fully described in a preceding page 

 (p. 131). A drawing of this species, with analytical details, will be given 

 in ' Contributions to Botany,' plate 30. 



