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two dark smoke-coloured blotches ; each of the following 

 segments has a transverse black band, extending on either 

 side to the spiracles. No. 3 has the ground colour sickly 

 yellow-green, the 2nd segment having two almost square 

 dark smoke-coloured blotches ; the 3rd segment has a cloud 

 of the same colour, and the following segments, namely, the 

 4lh to the 12th, both inclusive, have each a transverse dorsal 

 band almost black : this band has the anterior margin nearly 

 straight, but the posterior margin produced into three points; 

 these transverse bands are intersected by two pale dorsal 

 stripes : the claspers have a blotch of the same dark colour 

 on the outside. No. 4 has the black bands as dark as in No. 

 3, but the interspaces suffused with smoke-colour instead of 

 green ; the ventral surface has two stripes of smoke-colour. 

 No 5 is intensely black and unicolorous, except that there 

 are two narrow pale green dorsal stripes interrupted at the 

 interstices of the segments. My specimens, abundantly sup- 

 plied by Mr. Doubleday, appeared to be full-fed about the 

 1st of June, and changed to pupae on the surface of the 

 earth. — Edward Newman. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



129. The Stylopidee Neuropterous. — The Strepsiptera, or 

 rather the Siylopidae, after being settled comfortably, appa- 

 rently, among the Coleoptera, have again had the question 

 of their location raised by Dr. Gerstaecker. He places them 

 with the Neuroptera, principally for the following reasons : — 

 1, the rudimentary buccal organs ; 2, the elongated free an- 

 terior and middle coxae ; 3, the radiate venation of the pos- 

 terior wings ; 4, the short and annular prothorax ; and 5, the 

 branchiform respiratory organs in the larvae. But the exist- 

 ence of the last is more than doubtful. Dr. Schaum answers 

 these reasons in a paper in Wiegman's 'Archives,' just as 

 before he answered Von Siebold's objections. The reasons 

 advanced for considering them as Coleoptera are : — 1, the 

 coriaceous veinless anterior wings; 2, the striking resem- 

 blance between their early (hexapod) larvae and those of 

 Meloe ; and 3, the perfect metamorphosis. It may be re- 

 marked that these hexapod larvae (in the second stage they 



