78 THE KNTOMOLOC.Y OF THE GRASS-TREES, 



Symphvletes solandri, Fabr. 



The life-history of tliis tine longicorn is given by me in detail 

 in the Proceedings of this Society (Vol. ix. (2), p. 115, 1894). 

 Though not generally a very common beetle unless in an excep- 

 tional season, it is one that is very easily bred from infested 

 flowerstalks if kept in a box. 



Xantholinus erythropterus, Erichs. 



(Plate IX., figs. 4-5.) 



Larva slendei", flattened, 7h lines in length, with the head, 

 prothorax, and legs ferruginous, the rest of the thoracic and all 

 the abdominal segments pale yellow, lightly fringed with hairs; 

 head longer than broad, rounded behind, and armed with long 

 slender black jaws; antenna? 4-jointed, 2nd and 3rd joints long, 

 slender, and swollen at the apex, 4th shorter and rounded at the 

 tip; prothorax rounded in front, truncate behind, both head and 

 thorax with a slight median suture; legs short and thick, with 

 slender tarsal claws; abdominal segments uniform with meta- 

 thoi'ax, the anal one tapering to the tip and armed with a slender 

 hairy appendage on either side. 



Pupa is a tightly swathed ferruginous bundle, the thoracic 

 portion forming a roof-like covering over the turned down head, 

 the legs in front, the hind pair forming a rounded projection in 

 front of the upper abdominal segments, which are round and 

 cylindrical to the tip. 



Beetle six lines in length, all smooth, shining, black, except 

 the wing covers, which are bright reddish-brown; head rounded, 

 much broader than the thorax, deeply impressed above the long 

 sickle-shaped jaws, and lightly fringed in front with reddish 

 hairs; antennse with brownish pubescence, the terminal joint of 

 palpi ferruginous; thorax broadest in front, sloping on either side, 

 and rounded at apex, lightly fringed with blackish hairs; legs 

 short and spined, thickly covered with blackish hairs; elytra 

 finely punctuate, broadest at apex, truncate; abdomen rather 





