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liours at a stretch. As the rostrum is comparatively short and the 

 leiJ's inordinately long, tlie attitude in feeding is peculiar ; the body is 

 tipped forward with the front legs rather straddling and the hind 

 ones placed nearly parallel to one another, supporting the upturned 

 abdomen. In rest, the attitude is very gracefid ; the body is neatly 

 balanced on the symmetrically disposed legs, and the antennae carried 

 with the first two joints directed upwards and backwards and the 

 others then bent forward upon them, so that the black club, which is 

 unquestionably the most sensitive part, is farthest forward ; its 

 position is sometimes just over the head, or again, when the insect is 

 apparently more alert, somewhat in advance of it. 



56, Cecile Park, 



Crouch End, N. : 

 November 2nd, 1912. 



Codiosoma spadix, Herhst , in New Zealand. — In Part 2 of my " Notes on 

 Cossonidm " \_anted, XLV, p. 122 (19U9)], the occurrence of Codiosoma 

 {Phloeophagus) spadix, Herbst, at Fremantle, W. Australia, was recorded. I 

 may now add that the insect has also been taken on the coast of New Zealand, 

 and described l)y Major Broun as a new genus and species, under the name 

 Pselactus punctaUis, from specimens captvired on the underside of logs embedded 

 in sea sand at New Plymoiith. Amongst some Coleoptera recently sent by him 

 to the British Museiim for determination were the following : Hahrocerus 

 capillar icornis, Cercyon analis, and Ptinus tectus. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, 

 Woking : Decemher 3lst, 1912. 



Note on the larva of Scirtes.- — Since the piiblication of my notes on the 

 Coleoptera, &c., found in Bromeliads, 1 have come across a description and 

 figures of the larva and pupa of the Indian S. grandis, Motsch., by D. Nowrojee 

 [Mem. Dept. Agric. India, II, No. 9, pi* 189, 190, pi. xxvi (April, 1912)]. As 

 allusion was made in my paper to the larva of a Costa Rican Scirtes, it seems 

 woi'th while reproducing here the description of that of the Indian S. grandis* 

 "' Elongate, flattened dorso-vonti'ally, slightly convex above, measuring when 

 full grown about 8 mm. in length and 2i mm. in breadth. Head more or less 

 flattened, more than twice as broad as long and partly retracted within the 

 prothorax ; mouth parts well developed ; labrum large, semi-circular, with the 

 anterioi- margin concave ; mandibles short, stout, triangular, curved outwardly, 

 sinuous along the inner margin, with apex finely pointed ; eyes small, incon- 

 spicuous ; maxillffi well developed, with a broad inner lobe and a short 4-jointed 

 palpii.s ; antennaj very long and slender, reaching to apex of 5th abdominal seg- 

 ment, setaceous, first two joints comparatively long and followed by a gi-eat many 



* So far as I am aware, the larva i>f iieitlicr of the Eiirdjieaii siieeies has been described. 



