1919-] ^- H- Gravely: Indian Beetle Larvae. 267 



Natur. Tidsskr. IX, 1874, pp. 226-376, pi. viii-xix 

 [P. confluens, pp. 294-296 and 261, pi. x, figs. i~io, pi. 

 xix,fig. 3). 



Pelidonota punctata, Linnaeus. 



1870. *Riley, C. V., "Insects Injurious to the Grape Vine." 

 Amer. Ent. <&; Bot. V (2), 1870, p. 295, fig. 185. 



Cotalpa lanigera, Linnaeus. 



1869. Lockwood, S. ''The Goldsmith Beetle and its Habits." 



Amer. Nat. IT, 1869, pp. 186-192, figs. 1-2. 



1870. Lockwood, S. " Destructiveness of the Larva of the Gold- 



smith Beetle." Amer. Nat. Ill, 1870, pp, 49-50- 

 1S79. *Saunders, W. Canad. Ent. XI, pp. 21-22. 



Anoplognathus analis, Boisduval, and A, porosus, Dalman. 



1901. Froggatt, W. W. " Cockchafer {Anoplognathus) Grubs des- 

 troying Strawberry Plants." Agric. Gaz. N. S. W., 

 XII, 1901 (1902), pp. 473-476, 5 text-figs. 



Adoretus vcstitus, Boheman. 



1915. '*Friederichs, R. ^' Ueber Adoretus vestitus, Boh , als 

 Schadling im Samoa und seine friiheren Stande." 

 Zeitschr. Wiss. Insbiol. X, pp, 41-47, figs. 



Adoretus lacustris, Arrow. 

 PI. xiv, figs. 5-6. 



Locality. — Salt Lakes near Durgapur, Calcutta. Three larvae 

 varying from about 30-40 mm. in length, and a number of pupae 

 and adults with cast larval skins. They were found about a foot 

 above the water's edge in lumps of firm clayey soil that were falling 

 away from a narrow banked-up footpath separating two pieces of 

 brackish water. One of the larvae was found among root«: of Acan- 

 thus ilicifolius in very wet, and doubtless salt, mud at the water's 

 edge, but no others and no pupae or adults were found at this 

 level. 



The larvae closely resemble those of Adoretus vcstitus des- 

 cribed by Friederichs, and those of Anomala frischii and Phyllo- 

 perlha horticola described by Schi-^dte in their general characters. 

 They are greyish in colour. 



The head resembles that of Phyllopertha horticola, having hair- 

 bearing punctures sparsely scattered all over it. The antennae are 

 slenderer than in that species, the basal joint being spherical, the 

 second (first of Schi(/)dte) three times, the third five times and the 



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