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ON THE LIFE-HISTORIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 COLEOPTERA. 



Part II. 



By Walter W. Froggatt. 



This paper contains my notes and observations on beetles bred 

 out during the season 1892-93. Nearly ^■ll niy specimens, with 

 the exception of a few obtained during a visit to Victoria, have 

 been obtained from material collected in the neighbourhood of 

 Sydney ; among those noted in my former paper I described 

 Stigmodera rufijiennis, Kirby, bred from the twigs of Acacia 

 jicniperina from Victoria ; this season I have bred a great number 

 from the twigs of A. discolor in November and December from 

 about Sydney. Among the more remarkable ones now described 

 is another gall-producing Buprestid belonging to the genus 

 Paracephala recently described by the Rev. Thos. Blackburn 

 from specimens I sent to him. The life-history of several weevils 

 belonging to the genus Oxyps is very remarkable. Their larvae 

 might very easily be taken for those of lepidoptera. Another 

 Cetonia has been added to our list ; while I have made a slight 

 departure in this part in noting several small longicorns which I 

 have bred from infested branches, but the larvae of which I have 

 been unable to determine, as very frequently one twig will contain 

 several larvae belonging to different species. 



As before, I am indebted to the Rev. Thos. Blackburn for 

 determining a number of my insects, and to Mr. R. T. Baker for 

 the identification of some of their food plants. 



ScoLECOBROTUS Westwoodi, Hope, Trans. Zool. Soc. i. 1835, 

 p. 109, t. 15, f. 5. 



Larva pale yellow, cylindrical, with broad head, small conical 

 legs, and a slight fringe of reddish hairs round the head and 



