PREFACE. 



feed ; these larvse, three-quarters of an inch in diameter and five 

 inches long, forming a succulent and most dehcious bonne louche 

 for the natives. 



The succeeding Decades will illustrate as many different genera 

 as possihle, and will deal first usually with species of some special 

 interest, and of which good figures do not exist, or are not easily 

 accessible. 



Feedeeick McCoy. 

 10th March 1879. 



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