1872.] 59 



of the same colour ; the head is brownish-grey, freckled with dai'k 

 brown, and marked down the front of eacli lobe with a black wedge- 

 shaped mark, pointing to each side of the mouth j the sides of the head 

 bear also a black streak. 



It will thus be seen that this larva is a mucli handsomer creature 

 than either of its congeners in this country, and abundantly distinct 

 from them. 



The pupa-state w^as assumed at a slight depth below tbe sui-face 

 of the soil, and there seemed to be little appearance of any cocoon or 

 chamber ; the pupa was full and rounded in figure, the skin being 

 thin and of a bright red colour. 



Emsworth : Jidy, 1872. 



Ravages of Anohiivm. — The floor of an upper room at Mr. Van Voorst's, our 

 worthy pubhshor, Paternoster Row, upon which part of his stock of works in sheets 

 has been placed for security, is riddled hj Anobiiim striatum, 01., which, in its efforts 

 to publish itself to the world, has penetrated a layer of half-an-ineh of paper (5 quires 

 deep, with strong outer wrapper). A good soaking with boiling water containing 

 carbolic acid may, perhaps, suppress fiu'ther editions of the beetle ; and the stock could 

 with benefit be placed on tin plates, though even the metallic intervention might not 

 prove effectual, as I have known A. tessellatum bore clean tlirough leaden roofing 

 under similar conditions. I remember finding A. striatum (which, in the present 

 instance, exhibits a great lack of esprit de corps in attacking a natural-history book 

 publisher) in multitudes, quietly converting into the resemblance of a cullender 

 bottom the superficies of an elegant sideboard in a friend's house, bought as solid 

 mahogany, but really made of British wood with a thin veneer, the white dust of 

 the native fibre pouring tlu'ough the neat driU holes on to the carpet. My friend 

 Dr. T. Algernon Chapman once sent me vast quantities of ivy stems from Aber- 

 gavenny, peopled with this beetle, among others of greater value : these stems I 

 kept in an unoccupied bed-room, collecting the last-mentioned species from day to 

 day on the windows and walls, and thoughtlessly leavuig the Anobium, the numbers 

 whereof were enormous. I have since moved from that house, and can only hope my 

 late landlord will not peruse these lines, lest the idea of an action for dilapidations 

 shoidd occur to liis mind. — E. C. Eye, 10, Lower Park Field, Putney, S.W. : 

 JuJtj, 1872. 



Note on Lamprias {Lehia) chrysocephalus, Motsch. — Baron Chaudoir (Bxill. de 

 la Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscou, xliii, pt. 2, p. 137), who has just completed his 

 monograph of the Lebiades, sinks Motschoulsky's insect above named as a var. of 

 chlorocephalus, which he (Chaudoir) states to occur in the south and west of Erancc, 

 and to be smaller than the type, with the elytra proportionally more abbreviated, 

 and the thorax generally less transverse. This is evidently the same insect as that 

 refei-red by me to Motschoulsky's chrysocephaliis from Shirley, in Ent. Mo. Mag., iv 

 (1868), p. 190.— Id. 



