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MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



three or four terminal joints united into a mass ; and the third joint 

 of the tarsi is bifid. These insects are generally of small size, but 

 often gaily coloured. They feed upon the leaves and tender parts of 

 vegetables. 



In the summer of 1837, M. V. Audouin directed my attention to 

 the economy of the Attelabus curculionides in the woods near 

 Sevres : the female of which rolls up portions of the leaves of the oak 

 into small masses, of the size and shape of a small thimble, depositing 

 her eggs therein. M. Goureau has published a short notice on this 

 insect in the Revue EntomoL, vol. iii. (Nos. 13, and 14.) Panzer 

 likewise states of Apoderus coryli, '' Habitat in foliis coryli avellanae, 

 quae in cylindrum volvit, et utrinque claudit." [Fau7i. Ins. Germ. 

 100. 8.) 



The accompanying figures of the larva (^</. 41. 4.) of Apoderus 

 coryli {Jig. 41. 1.) and its nest {fig. 41. 3.), are copied from Dr. 



Fig. 41. 



Ratzeburg's Forst-Insecten (vol. i. p. 97. tab. 4. f. 5.). The larva is 

 remarkable for the large erect t'lbercles with which the segments of 

 the body (except those of the thorax) are dorsally furnished. In 

 its general structure it agrees with the larva of other Rhynco- 

 phorous insects, as does also the pupa. 



T'kunberff. Nov. Act. Upsal, vii. 



Illiger. Mag. der Entoraol. vol. vi. 



Hummel. Ess. Ent. III. 



Kirby, in Linn. Trans, xii. 



Chevrolat, in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol, i. (Oxycorynus.) 



H()pe,m Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. i. (Isacantha. ) 



Boisduval, in Voy. Astrolabe. 



Giierin, in V^oy. Coquille. — Ditto, Icon. R. An. 



