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maxilla and labium ; 44-, 9. one of the antenna;, and 41<. lo. the 

 eyes on one side. 



I have found the larvae of another insect of this family under the bark 

 of trees in Kensington Gardens, and which I have no doubt is that of 

 Leiopus nebulosus, which is found there not unfrequently. It is of 

 the ordinary form ; but I could discover no traces of thoracic legs : the 

 anterior segments of the body are broadest. These larvae assumed 

 the pupa state, in which the antennae, which are very long, are carried 

 along the sides of the body, extending about half the length of the 

 abdomen, and are then recurved upon the breast and over the legs, 

 reaching as far as the eyes. Some ants killed these individuals, so 

 that I was not able to obtain them in the perfect state. 



Goedart has figured the different states of a curious American 

 Lamia (No. 110.); the antennae of which, in the imago, are much 

 longer than the body ; and in the pupa these organs are bent back- 

 wards, as in the pupa of L. nebulosus, except that, being longer, they 

 are extended beyond the mouth ; the tips passing beneath their 

 basal part, and protruding somewhat like ears. 



The various states of Lamia aedilis {Jig. 44. 3. ^ ) have been figured 

 by, Ratzeburg in his Forst-Lisecten, pi. xvi. The larva does not 

 »at»mliy differ from that of Cerambyx moschatus; but in the pupa 

 (^Jig- 44. 4. 5 ) the long antennae ai'e curled up, as in Goedart's 

 figure. 



M. Rodrigues observed the transformations of Saperda Asphodelis, 

 the female of which deposits her eggs at the root of the Asphodelus 

 luteus in the month of May, upon the pith of which plant the larva 

 feeds until the beginning of the following spring, when it assumes the 

 pupa state ; soon after which the imago makes its appearance. In 

 like manner, the larva of Saperda cylindrica feeds upon the pith of 

 the nut, pear, and i)luni ; and it is in the centre of the stems that it 

 becomes a pupa. The larva, as figured by MosfA (^Insect. Belust. vol. ii., 

 Scar, terrestr. tab. 3.), has a very large, oviil, flat head, armed with 

 two strong porrectcd jaws, and being much broader than the other 

 segments of the body, of which the middle segments are somewhat 

 broader than the preceding. Bouche has described the larva and 

 pupa of Saperda Populnoa*, the former of which resides in the buds of 

 the second or third year's wood of the Populus tremula : its head is small 



* Mr. F. Smith has very recently observed that this species is (inrasitically at- 

 tacked by a species of Megartlirus, a genus of Stapliylinida\ 



