1880.] 151 



His denomination for these is Anopluriform, from Pediculus, L., form- 

 ing Dr. Leach's Anoplura. His examples are Coccinella and Chryso- 

 mela, L." K. & S., vol. iii, p. 160. 



The general description may apply ; but that striking, if superficial, 

 resemblance to Pediculus, which suggested the denomination, does not 

 extend to all the species included in the Linnean, nor perhaps to any 

 of the restricted, genus, Chrysomela. In giving their own definition 

 of the Anopluriform type (Joe. cit. p. 162), K. & S. exclude Chrysomela 

 altogether in restricting its application to carnivorous larvae ; but, 

 leaving out this word, the rest of the description — " hexapod ; antenni- 

 ferous ; with a shortish oblong depressed body, and distinct thoracic 

 shield," — seems to apply very well to a section of the Linnean genus, 

 e. g., Lina, Gastrophysa, Prasocuris ; and to be equally unsuitable to 

 others, as Timarcha and Chrysomela. At p. 156, K. & S. speak of 

 some larva3 as being " gibbous above, and flat underneath ; as those of 

 Chrysomela" &c. To this section the term Reliciform might perhaps 

 be applied ; at least, the superficial resemblance is as striking as in the 

 case of the other section and Pediculus. In the case of some larvae 

 feeding on water-mint, which I found in July, 1877, and which sub- 

 sequently yielded beetles of Chrysomela varians, I find the following 

 description in my note book : " One of the largest is 2 — 2\ lines long, 

 and at the highest point of abdomen 1\ line high. It is laterally com- 

 pressed. The head and prothorax are darker than the rest, and project 

 from the dull-coloured body, which might be described as two-thirds 

 or three-fourths of an oblate spheroid standing upon its truncated 

 , part. The insect does not extend itself much in walking, and, when 

 alarmed, draws itself in, tail towards head, when it is well fitted for 

 rolling, and lets go. It is not anopluriform. The head is black, 

 '. flattened in front, and slightly bilobate ; porrected in travelling. The 

 ' antennae are conical, pretty long for a larva, banded alternately, light 

 and dark, and are retractile within the head. . . The prothorax is 

 black also above, somewhat semicircular or rounded posteriorly where 

 it overlaps the second segment. Here the colour changes to the dull 

 ; greenish-drab of the rest of the body. The legs are pretty long, 

 : jointed, and furnished with single claws. The spiracles are a row of 

 seven or eight black dots on either side, with a minute white (or clear) 

 eye in the centre of each. . . A faint line runs somewhat archwise 

 between each pair of spiracles, and from the angular apex of this line, 

 • which is nearer to the spiracle in front, a similar faint line runs up 

 the side for a short distance, then forks, and the two branches, crossing 

 the back, intersect with similar branches from the adjacent lateral 



