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truncum ipsum et corticem habitant. Totam per estatem et initio 
auctumni in corticis arborum fissuris ambulantes adscendunt et 
descendunt ut victum quzerant idque praecipue quod Stern obser- 
vavit hora meridiana czloque sereno.” In this state they are very 
pugnacious, destroying and devouring each other, but appearing to 
prefer the Diptera for food on account of the greater softness of 
their bodies. The following observations on the reproduction of 
the limbs in these insects are of great interest, as the genus from the 
subquiescent state of the pupe may be deemed to hold an inter- 
mediate station between the insects which undergo an incomplete 
and a complete metamorphoses—no instance, so far as I am yet aware, 
having hitherto been observed in which insects having a complete meta- 
morphosis have been found to possess the power of reproducing their 
limbs. 
‘“‘ Interdum in exuviis corporis lees partes restituuntur sic larvam 
cujus pes anterior et antenna morsu alius larve in una eademque 
arcula asservate articulo ultimo spoliata erant, ante ultimas exuvias 
has partes recipere vidi. Lezesiones vero post ultimas exuvias pre- 
sertim graves, et que breve tempus ante evolutionem in nympham 
accipiuntur plerumque mortiferze sunt et unicum tantum animad- 
verti casum in quo larva licet amissa post ultimas exuvias dimidia 
antenna in nympha et imaginis statum transiit sed antenna illa lesa 
dimidiata permansit et in nympha et in imagine.” p. 49. These larvae 
both for hybernation and pupation “in arborum cortice cava ovata 
erodunt—Procul dubio hac re in errorem indutus est Waterhouse 
(Trans. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 1.), larvam xylophagam esse opinatus est 
scobes ligni coherentes vel conglutinatas pro excrementis habens 
quz vero quod satis expertus sum, speciem habent granularum 
minutarum forma oblonga colore nigro.” 
Adopting my family Mantispide as distinct from Rhaphidide, 
the author gives the following distribution of the two groups :— 
Fam. R#apHIpropka, prosterno Capite obovato, ocellis 3, prosterno triangulari alarum 
postico, pedibus omnibus homo- costis (pilosis), radialibus cubitalibusque in ramulos 
nomis, &c. dichotomos exeuntes. 
Gen. Rhaphidia, Linn. 
Capito quadrato, ocellis 0, prosterno libero elongato, 
alarum ramulo unico radiali in furcam exeunte pedibus 
abbreviatis. 
Sub-Gen. Jnocellia, Mihi. 
Mantispa crassicornis, Schum. 
Fam. Manrtispiopga, pro- Ocellis 0, &c., Gen. Mantispa. 
sterno antico, pedibus anterioribus Vertice ocellis instructo, &c., 
raptoriis, &c. Sub-Gen. Anisoptera, Mihi; 
seu Mantispa notha, Erichs. 
