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well relieved between two larger and paler double ochreous streaks often confluent ; 

 the side on each segment between the sub-dorsal and spiracular regions was divided 

 into two triangular portions, the upper having its base on the front of the segment, 

 and its apex pointing backwards on the sub-dorsal stripe, and being altogether of 

 the dark ground, the lower triangle having its base on the hinder part of the 

 segment, and its apex pointing forwards on the spiracular region, and being covered 

 with regular transverse lines of whitish-grey dots on a brownish-grey ground ; the 

 black oval spiracles were deeply sunk each within a large rounded shining spot of 

 blackish ; the broad, whitish, inflated, sub-spiracular stripe was tolerably regular 

 along the thoracic segments, but from the fifth segment it was festooned along in a 

 puckered and tortuous course to the anal flap, followed beneath on most segments by 

 a group of blotches and dots of a similar whiteness ; the back of the second segment 

 was glossy ; the anterior legs were black and shining, also the caudal horn,* the 

 anal flap greyish-ochreous ; the ventral and posterior legs of the ground colour were 

 ringed with dull orange-red near their extremities, which were tipped with dark 

 brown hooks ; the belly had a fine ventral line rather darker than the ground, which 

 was thickly freckled over with a paler tint of the same. 



The pupa measured 2ii inches in length, and five-eighths of an inch in diameter ; 

 its stout proboscis projected a quarter of an inch out from the body, bent downwards 

 at a slight angle for little more than half-an-inch, and then ciirved round upwards 

 for half the distance towards the underside of the thorax, with which it was in con- 

 tact near its blunt, rounded extremity : the various parts of the imago within were 

 all remarkably well shown, yet gently rounded off at the prominences, the wing- 

 covers long in proportion, the anal spike short, blunt, and roughish, the proboscis 

 delicately corrugated or ringed ; each segment of the abdomen had on the back a 

 narrow transverse band of roughness at its beginning, the rest of the surface smooth 

 and shining ; the colour was a light rich mahogany-brown, darker on the head, 

 thorax, and proboscis, and on the last two segments ; the legs, antennae, and wing- 

 CDvers being the palest portions. 



Emsworth : April, 1873. 



Xote on Xylotrttpes dichotomus, L. — The lai-va of this insect has been a familiar 

 object to me for soma time in Japan : it generally occurs in the friable portions of 

 rubbish-heaps and gardcu refuse, or in light soils, where there is an abundant gi'owth 

 of rank vegetation. The last larva I remember seeing was in a manure heap at 

 Osaka, where it was snugly lodged under a broken tile. I once had a pupa from a 

 similar situation, in which the horn of the male was well developed. The species is 

 called " Kabuta-mushi " by the Japanese, and its larvaj are known to agriculturists, 

 occun-ing, as I describe, in the earth, after the manner of those of our Meloloniha 

 vulgaris. 



Phileurus ckinensix I suspect is of a similar habit in its earlier stages, as I have 

 always found the imago near heaps of refuse under planks or tiles ; but this species 

 appears late in September, while the larger one is abundant by the middle of 

 July. — George Lewis, Acton Lodge, Bcckcnham : March 21si, 1873. 



* The horn varies in colour ; Boisduval says, " it is either fawn above and black beneath, or 

 ferruginous, or of a rusty-red."— W. B. 



