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namely, Hegeter [Tentyriadse] is quile as significant as the 

 first, uuiiibeiing no less than nineteen species. Then follow 

 Calalhus and Attains [IMalachiidaj], both of which are largely 

 expressed, and have seventeen representatives (manifestly 

 quile indigenous) ; Apion has fifteen, but some of them may 

 perhaps have been introduced ; Bembidium, Arthrodes [Ero- 

 diada^], and Philonthus have each fourteen ; Acalles and 

 Longilarsus thirteen (the former being equally developed, or 

 even more so, at Madeira) ; Saprimus, Pimelia, Helops, and 

 Anthicus number, each of them, twelve ; Ajjhanarthrum [To- 

 micidie] eleven (all «^//r</-indigenous) ; Hydroporus ten ; and 

 Tarphius (likewise positively endemic, and of which more 

 will doubtless yet be found) nine. Indeed Tarphius [Coly- 

 diadse], as I have elsewhere shown, is almost characteristic 

 of the intermediate sylvan districts of the whole of these At- 

 lantic Islands ; nevertheless it is decidedly more dominant 

 at Madeira (where no less than twenty exponents have 

 already been observed) than at the Canaries." — Preface, 

 p. xii. 



Most cordially do I recommend this volume to every Co- 

 leopterist: profoundly learned must be that man who will 

 not reap from it abundant instruction. 



Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Pieris Napi. — This butterfly 

 is double-brooded : the eggs which produce both broods ^are 

 laid on Erysimum alliaria. Nasturtium officinale (water-cress), 

 Barbarea precox, and probably some other species of Cru- 

 cifertB : the eggs which produce the first brood of larvaj are 

 deposited in April and May ; those which produce the second, 

 in July and August. They are generally attached to the 

 under side of the leaves in a pemlant position : their figure 

 is that of a sugar-loaf, but beautifully ribbed longitudinally, 

 and delicately striated transversely ; they are attached by the 

 base. The larvae emerge about the twelfth day, and are full- 

 fed respectively at the end of June and middle of Septem- 

 ber, when they rest in a straight position, closely appressed 

 to the food-plant. Head small, decidedly narrower than the 

 body ; body cylindrical, but tapering slightly to each ex- 

 tremity ; dorsal surface transversely wrinkled, the wrinkles 



