oF curculionidj: injurious to cycabe^, etc. 12? 



standing the absence of feet, they walk ofF at a good pace solely by 

 the verraicular motion of the segments of the body » (Murray, loc. 

 cit. » 



The larvae of the PhacecorpmùS fimerarius is thus descnheà hy 

 Mr. Murray (whose observations and descriptions are hère quoted, 

 as the Gardener's OJironicle is not a work in the hands of many 

 Entomologists).- 



« Larva wrinkled,fleshy,yellowish white.Head oblong,corneous, 

 light hrown, mouth directed downwards. The cephalic plate behind 

 the labriim has six or eight dépressions (in a double séries) in the 

 middle and two irregular ones on each side near the anterior mar- 

 gin; no ocelli; no antennse; clypeus short and transverse, labrum 

 broadly trilobed, mandibles robust, rounded towards the point; the 

 underside concave without basai teeth, but with one or two slight 

 élévations not large enough to be called tubercles, along their poste- 

 rior edge; maxillse far apart, each almost a fleshy column, most 

 developed on the inner side, bearing on the external angle a short 

 palpus, consisting of two articles, of which the lower joint is tumid, 

 the terminal one minute andpointed; mentum triangular, with the 

 base of the triangle in front, canaiiculated in the middle; front with 

 a slight projecting tooth on each side of the middle, and bearing on 

 each side on the external angles a somewhat tumid palpus, consis- 

 ting of two small articles. Thoracic and abdominal segments ail well 

 separated from each other and very wrinkled, the first thoracic 

 segment with a corneous pale yellowish-brown plate along each 

 side of the back, the last segment with two recurved fleshy hooks 

 projecting upwards, yellow and slightly corneous at the tip. Stig- 

 mata nine on each side ail distinct and easely seen, the first twice 

 the size ofthe rest placed close to the inferior angle behind the head. 

 Feet none. » I hâve given out-line copies of Mr. Murray's figure of 

 the larva and its détails. 



An elaborate4i" memoirby D'^Hermann Burmeister waspublished 

 in 1837 with the title : « Zîir NaturgescJiicMe der Gattung Galan- 

 dra nehst Beschreibung einer neuen Art, Calandra Sommeri » 

 illustrated by a plate containing full détails of the external and 

 internai anatomy of the species in ail its states. This new species 

 infests the FncepJialartos Altenstenii Lehm. at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. The perfect insect is 10 lines long and is described as « Nigra 

 pronoto vittato : eJytris punctato-striatis, stria secunda et tertia 

 puncto post médium hiteo-fusco. » — The species is very closely 

 allied to Ph. Zamiœ and fimerarius, havitig the ventral surface 

 of the abdomen concave and flattened. Thèse species do not appear 

 to form a cocoon of the twisted fibres ofthe stem or grains of the 

 plants on which they feed as is the case with Calandra palmarwm 



