COLEOPTERA. CURCULIONIDiE. S^S 



short. The pupa is elongated and cyhndric, with the extremity 

 armed with two short spines. (Vol. v. pi. 7. fig. 3 — 9.) 



Signor Passerini has published an account of the injuries pro- 

 duced by the larva of Lixus 8-lineatus, which feeds upon the tree- 

 cabbage in Italy. (See Bull, des Sc. Nat. February, 1831.) 



The larvae of the genus Hypera form small oval cocoons, like 

 gauze, composed of loose threads, permitting the larvae or pupic to 

 be seen through the meshes, and attached on the under sides of 

 various leaves, Szc. De Geer has given the history of one of the 

 species, under the name of Charan9on de la Patience (vol. v. tab. 7. 

 fig. 10 — 16.). The larva is long and narrow, with the segments deeply 

 incised, and slightly setose, with light lateral and dorsal lines. 

 Lyonnet appears to have intended an insect of this genus, when 

 describing the history of his " Scarabce a trompe, dont le ver se 

 construit une espece de cage, pour s'y changer en nymphe." (^Mem. 

 Posth. p. 123.pl. 12.) 



The species of the genus Cionus inhabit the Verbascum, upon the 

 leaves of which the larvaj feed. They are of a small size, nearly 

 i^lobular, and prettily marked \vith dark spots and lines. De Geer 

 has fi'gured the history of one of the species (3Icin. tom. v. tab. 6. 

 f, 17 — 24-.) ; and Mr. Stephens has recorded the curious fact, that, in 

 July, 1827, he captured a single example of each of the five British 

 species in a garden at Ripley, upon the only plant of Verbascum 

 growing there. SchafFer has figured the transformations of the 

 C. scrophulariae (^Ahhandl. vol. iii. pi. 9.), under the name of der 

 Kropfkrauts russel kafer. The cocoon is formed with open meshes, 

 like that of the Hj'perae. Bouchc has described the larva of Cionus 

 Verbasci Sch., which is found, in the month of August, in the flowers 

 and seeds of Verbascum Thapsum. (Naturff. d. Ins. p. 198.) Reau- 

 mur has likewise given the history of a species of this genus, the larva 

 of which feeds upon the parenchyma of, and within, the leaves of the 

 mullein. (3Iem. tom. iii. pi. 2. f. 9—12.) 



Count Fischer de WalUlheim has figured the pupa and imago of 

 another weevil (Curculio Pimpinellac), the cocoon of which is similarly 

 formed of open meshes. (^Oryctogr. du Gouvern. de Moscou, fol. 

 1830.) 



The Cryptorhynchus Lapatiii resides, in all its states, upon willows; 

 the larva boring into the trunk, and making holes as large as a goose- 

 quill, from wliich proceeds a substance resembling sawdust. Its 



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