86 [Septemljer, 



given in Bedel's " Coleopteres clu Bassin de la Seine," a work in cours 

 of publication by the Entomological Society of Prance, but whid 

 may be procured separately, and will be found by far the most usefu 

 work a British Coleopterist can obtain for his assistance. The speci 

 mens should be examined with a moderately high power of the com 

 pound microscope, a half-inch object glass is the best, so that th 

 minute sculpture of the thorax may be seen, when reference to tw» 

 characters is sufficient to determine the species, viz. : — 



A. Thorax almost without any dense minute punctuation between the larger punc 



tures. 



1. Elytra irregularly punctate. L. sinuatus, Motsch. {L. nigi-iceps, Brit. Cat.) 



2. Elytra quite regularly punctate. L. hipunctatus, Th. (in this species th 



pallid colour at the extremity of the elytra extends forwards at on 

 point on each wing-case, so as to give the appearance of a pallid spot] 



B. Thorax with a dense iijinute punctuation between the larger punctures. 



3. Elytra irregularly punctate. L. alutaceus, Th. 



4. Elytra quite regularly punctate. L. minutus, auct. {Clirysomela minuU 



Lin.). 



Southampton : Aug^ist hth, 1884. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE LAEYA OF CRAMBUS CEHUSSELLUS. 

 BY GEO. T. PORRITT, T.L.S. 



In the spring of last year Mrs. W. H. B. Fletcher found sevenj 

 larvae " under stones " at Worthing which produced Cramhus cerui 

 sellus ; and this year Mr. Fletcher, whilst at Portland, found numero^ 

 similar larvae (some of which he very kindly forwarded to me), whio 

 proved to be of the same species. I had several times received batch 

 of the oval, bright, straw-coloured eggs from various friends, but hi 

 always failed to rear larvae from them. 



The larvae reached me on May 6th, and were feeding on the ro* 

 of a short, stiff species of grass. Length about half-an-inch i 

 rather slender ; head highly polished, it has the lobes rounded, andi 

 about the same width as the second segment ; body cylindrical, andi 

 nearly uniform width, being attenuated only slightly towards en 

 extremity ; skin smooth and rather glossy, the segmental divisions i 

 the tubercles well defined. The ground-colour varies considerab '; 

 in some specimens being a pinky-flesh colour, in others greyish-bro ; 

 and in some dingy olive-green ; the head also varies in different - 

 amples, in some being bright yellowish with brown mandibles, in otl * 

 yellowish-brown, with the mandibles and the freckles on the lobes i * 



