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remarkable resemblance of these cocoons, when in a qiiisscent 

 state, to the castings of some of the large wood-eating lamellicorn 

 beetles, they are ver}^ easily passed over. 



When the larva is full grown it forms a concave lid over the 

 top of the opening, and remains on the ground generally under 

 logs or fallen timber until it is read}^ to emerge. 



Like nearly all the members of this genus the beetles feed upon 

 the foliage of the young Eucalypts. 



The beetle is about 4 lines in length, reddish chocolate-brown, 

 with irregular black blotches upon the thorax and upper half of 

 the elj^tra; thorax and wing cases very rugose, the former verv 

 finely punctured; the latter deeply ribbed with parallel stria?, 

 closely and finely punctured. 



Hah. — Not common in the neighbourhood of Sydney, l3ut 

 plentiful in the Shoalhaven District. 



Epilachxa 26-puxctata, Dejean. 



Eggs pale yellow, placed in patches of thirt}- or forty upon the 

 underside of the leaves; elongated and pointed at the apex; 

 having a beautiful granulated appearance under the lens. The 

 larva on emergence and after each moult pale yellow. 



Larva short and stout, 5 lines in length and 3 in breadth, pale 

 yellow. Dorsal view : head completely hidden by the folds of the 

 thorax; 1st thoracic segment covered with a blackish patch from 

 which spring up four black spines, each of them with several finer 

 radiating spines growing from their sides; white at the tij)s; 2nd 

 and third thoracic segments wdth a blackish patch on either side, 

 with two similar feathery spines springing out from them; with 

 another black patch on either side just above the legs out of 

 w^hich a single feathered spine grows; the following six abdominal 

 segments have a double feathered spijie in the patch on the centre 

 of the back, with two smaller blotches on either side, each 

 producing a spine, 7th abdominal segment bearing 4 sj^ines, the 

 8th and anal one two. 



Yentral side : pale yellow; head small, l)lack and rounded 

 behind, elongated towards the jaws, wdiich are short and toothed; 



