THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 67.] JULY, MDCCCLXIX. IPrice 6d. 



On a7i uvdescvibed light-giviug Coleopterous Larva [pro- 

 viMonally named Asfraptor illuminator). By Andrew 

 Murray, Esq., F.L.S.* 



The purpose of this coinnuinication is to make known to 

 the Society a new light-giving coleoptei'ous larva. Whether 

 the hitherto unknown larva of a light-giving species whose 

 imago is known, or a new type altogether, may be doubtful ; 

 but at any rate, I believe, it is something entirely unknown 

 to entomologists, and therefore a step in our knowledge 

 which cannot fail to be interesting. 



1 am enabled to do so by my friend Mr. Alexander Fry, 

 the well-known entomologist, who, if he too seldom con- 

 tributes with his own pen to the literature of his favourite 

 science, at least makes some amends by at all times most 

 liberally communicating his stores of information to others, 

 and by allowing and encouraging them to make use of them 

 in his stead. 



Mr. Fry passed eleven years of his life in Brazil, during 

 the whole of which period he diligently collected and ob- 

 served in almost every branch of Natural History, and 

 brought back with him probably the finest collection of 

 Brazilian Coleoptera that anywhere exists. Nor is the mul- 

 titude of observed facts which he has stored up in his note- 

 books and his memory a whit less remarkable than the con- 

 tents of his cabinets. Every entomologist who is working, or 

 of late years has worked, at any group in which South- 

 American species occur, must confess his obligations to Mr. 

 Fry ; and so far as 1 myself am concerned, I gladly proclaim 

 that the interesting communication which I now make is 

 only a very small item of the scientific obligations under 

 which I lie to that gentleman. 



* Reprinted from ' The Juurnal of the Linneaa Society,' Zoology, Vol. x. p. 74. 

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