BY WALTER W. FKO(i(;ATT. ( 



COLEOPTERA. 

 MicROPCEciLA BREWEin, Jauson. 



Larva about H~ inches in length; white, rather elongate and 

 cylindrical; head reddish-brown, rugose, rounded behind, slightly 

 impressed in the centre with a wavy line running across on either 

 side to the base of the antennse; stout black jaws armed with 

 three .small blunt teeth; a broad elongate brown patch on either 

 side of the first thoracic segment, above the first spiracle; legs 

 long, covered with long ferruginous hairs; thoracic segments and 

 first seven abdominal segments furrowed into three ridges covered 

 with short dark spiny bristles, together with a transverse I'ow of 

 longer hairs across the tip; 8th segment smooth and shining, 

 covered with scattered short spines, and tinged with blue from 

 the internal food, the anal segment rounded at the tip. 



Beetle lOi^ lines in length, all the underside, legs, head, the 

 centre of the thorax and elytra smooth, shining black, with a 

 broad marginal band encircling the thorax and elytra dee]) orange 

 yellow; sides of the wing-covers showing shallow punctured 

 parallel strise. 



Near Hornsby I obtained a large number of larvfe early in 

 Jul)' fi'om a patch of dead grass-trees in which they were living 

 in the rich black vegetable mould into wliich the inner portion 

 of the caudex had been transformed l)y the action of the weather 

 and their jaws. Towards the beginning of May they began to 

 form earthy oval cocoons on the bottom of the tin, where they 

 remained until the end of Noveml^er, when the beetles began to 

 come out. 



The beetles are found with many others feeding upon the 

 flowers of the dwarf Angophora. 



CiSSEIS 12-MACULATA, Fab. 



T have never found the larva of this pretty little buprestid, 

 and do not know anything about its life-history, but the beetle 

 is common about Sydney in early summer, feeding upon the 



