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his travels in the Eastern Pyrenees in 1833. He said that wet 

 weather, to soften the ground, is necessary to enable the female 

 to get her ovipositor out of the ground, and, when impregnated, 

 to allow her to deposit her eggs. 



lalso remember M. Guerin telling me that he gave away in 

 exchange the female Cebrio which he took, and which was among 

 the rarest of the European Coleoptera at that time, as Ne- 

 crohia ruficollis (or " Latreille's saviour," as it was called) had 

 been formerly, when Bory St. Vincent and Dargelas rescued 

 that eminent man, a prisoner in the dungeons of Bordeaux 

 during the revolutionary earthquake, as recorded so graphi- 

 cally by Latreille in his ^ Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum.' 

 It was as rare as Drypta used to be, or Velleius dilatatus, 

 Emus hirtus, and Adelops are now, in this country. Young 

 Guerin, since so distinguished, could not resist the offer of a 

 specimen of the great Buprestis gigas, a common Brazilian 

 insect. This circumstance has induced the writer to name 

 this insect after the justly eminent French naturalist whose 

 ' Iconographie du Begne Animale,^ ^Magasin de Zoologie/ 

 ' Bevue et Magasin de Zoologie,' and articles in the ' Encyclo- 

 pedic Methodique,' in the ' Voyage de la Coquille,' and innu- 

 merable other works, extending over a long course of years, have 

 given him that reputation which he has now so long and so 

 deservedly enjoyed. His labours on insect oeconomy, as applied 

 to agriculture and the production of silk, and prevention of 

 injury to articles of value, are much appreciated over the whole 

 world. He has done for France what our Curtis and Westwood 

 have done for the British empire, — tres juncti in uno. M. Guerin- 

 Meneville, I may add, has illustrated, in his usual admirable 

 way, the genus Callirhipis in the 2nd plate of the Insects of the 

 'Voyage de la Coquille,' fig. 4 (C, Dejeanii, Latr.), and has 

 made this group a special object of study in a work quoted by 

 Lacordaire. 



I have named a larger species Paralichas {Epilichas) Candezii, 

 after the acute and amiable Dr. Candeze, of Liege, to one of 

 whose works I have alluded, but whose principal labours are on 

 the very difficult group Elateridae. 



Paralichas Candezii. 



P. rufo-flavus ; elytris nigerrimis ; thorace supra flavo piloso-hirtulo ; 

 an tennis nigris, tenuioribus (quam in spec, prsecedente), articulo 

 basali rufescente ; scutello rufescente ; elytris delicatule punctatis, 

 obsolete substriatis, subtus pedibusque rufo-flavis. Long. lin. 6^. 



Hab. China bor. (Shang-hai). Coll. Brit. Mus. 



The tarsi have the first and fifth joints about equal in length; 

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