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Records of the Indian Museum. (Voy. XI, 
“* TRILOBITE LARVAE.’’ 
The Lyropaeus larva described above belongs to the group 
known as ‘‘ Trilobite Larvae.’’ ‘The “‘ Trilobite Larvae,” which 
have hitherto attracted most attention, have been of extraordi- 
narily large size, and the group has been a puzzle to entomolo- 
gists ever since Perty described his Larva singularts in 1831. The 
following references to “‘ Trilobite Larvae”’ are known to me:— 
*I83r, 
1839. 
1841. 
1861. 
1887. 
1887. 
1898. 
*1 899. 
1899. 
1899. 
1899. 
1900. 
IgOl. 
1908. 
1913. 
Perty, M. ‘‘ Observationes Nonnullae in Coleoptera Indiae 
Orientalis ”’, p. 33, pl. i, figs. 8-9. 
Westwood, J. O. ‘‘ Introduction to the Classification. of 
Insects’ I, p. 254, figs. 27 (1) and 28 (1). 
Erichson, W. F. ‘‘Zur systematischen Kenntniss der 
Insectenlarven.’’ Arch. Naturg., VII, pp. 91-92. 
Candéze, M. E. ‘‘ Histoire des Metamorphoses de quel- 
ques Coléoptéres exotique.”’ Mem. Soc. R. Sct. Liége, XVI, 
1861, pp. 358 (apparently p. 34 in reprint) and 403-4, 
pl. vi, fig 2. 
Kolbe, H. J. ‘‘ Ueber einige exotische Lepidopteren- und 
Coleopteren-Larven, (6) Perty’s ‘ Larva singularis’.” 
Ent. Nachr., Ill, pp. 37-39. 
Lucas, M. H. Bull. Soc. Ent Fr., 1887, pp. xxxv-xxxvil, 
reprinted in ‘‘ Mission Pavie Indo-Chine 1879-1895’’, 
1904, pp. 104-5. 
Gahan, C. J. ‘‘ Dipeltis a Fossil Insect?” Nat. Sct. XII, 
PP. 42-44, 2 text-figs. 
Bolivar, I. ‘‘ Anomalous Larvae from the Philippines.’’ 
Act. Soc. Espan. 1899, pp. 130-133, text-figs. 
Bourgeois, J. “‘ Description de deux larves remarkables 
appartenant probablement au genre Lycus.’’ Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr., 1899, pp. 58-63, 2 text-figs. 
Sharp, D. ‘‘ Onthe Insects from New Brittain,’’ Willey’s 
Zool. Results, p. 383, pl. xxxv, figs. 4-40. 
Sharp, D. Cambridge Natural History, Insects, pt. II, 
p. 251. 
Hanitsch, R. ‘‘An Expedition to Mount Kina Balu, 
British North Borneo.’’ J. Straits R. Asiatic Soc. 
No. 34, PP: 77-79. 
Shelford, R. ‘‘ Notes on Some Bornean Insects.’’ Rep. 
Brit. Ass., 1901, pp. 690-691. 
Gahan, C. J. ‘‘Lampyridae from Ceylon.’’ Proc. Ent. 
Soc. London, 1908, p. xlviii. 
Gahan, C. J. ‘‘ On some Singular Larval Forms of Beetle 
to be found in Borneo.’’ J. Sarawak Mus. I, pp. 
61-65, 3 text-figs. 
Perty thought his Larva singularis was to be ascribed toa 
Necrophagous rather than to a Malacodermatous insect; but 
Westwood disagreed with him, and suggested that it belonged 
* Papers marked thus are not available in Calcutta. 
