12 Notes on Habits and Metamorphosis oi Lepidiota frenchi, Black. 
Epimeron densely covered by large ovate scales. Central area of 
mesosternum covered with yellow hairs, sides of same near epimeron with 
a few pear-shaped seales. Centre of posterior edge of metasternum close 
te hind coxwe channelled, and with a patch of elongate pear-shaped seales, 
the rest of surface thickly covered with silvery-yellow hairs. Episternim 
mostly covered by elongate oval scales and anterior portion by hairs. 
Elytra nearly oblong in form, length about twice the width, outer 
angle of caudal extremity acutely pointed ; closely sprinkled with circular 
white scales, smaller near edges of margins and more numerous alone 
suture. Each elytron with 5, narrow, equi-distant longitudinal ridges, 
scarcely distinguishable without a pocket lens, that bordering edge of 
suture being distinctly broader and more elevated than the other 4. These 
parallel ridges are characterised by having fewer scales, and their course 
may also be traced on the inner surface of elytron as fine lines of hghter 
hue than the lining membrane. 
Wings clouded with tight greyish-vellow, nervures dark-brown; 
length of wing (female), about 30 mm.; greatest width of same, 10 mm. 
Legs dark reddish-brown, sprinkled more or less freely with scales, 
and fringed with yellow hairs; anterior coxa longer than femur, tibia with 
three teeth (Fig, 25). Hind coxewe the width of femora, but shorter and 
densely clothed with scales and hairs. 
Tergum of abdomen yellowish-brown, hairy. 
Propygidium clothed on frontal area with yellow hairs, hind margin 
dark-reddish, slightly concave, thickly dotted with tiny scales and 
becoming declivous—nearly vertical close to caudal edge, which is more 
widely emarginate in middle, and furnished with larger scales. 
Note.—This declivity near caudal edge apears to be far more 
strongly marked in the specimens of Lepidiota No. 683 
examined by me than in L. frencht. 
Pygidium darker and noticeably more closely and uniformly 
punctured than the elytra, the scales slightly smaller, circular to ovate ; 
edges turned up, especially those of lateral and hind margins. Caudal 
extremity obtusely rounded, fringed with short hairs, and usually 
furnished in the female with a small medio-apical tooth, more or less. 
developed. 
Venter of abdomen between wing-cases densely punctured, the scales 
larger than on elytra, cireular to ovate, more numerous laterally, and 
arranged as shown in Fig. 28. 
NATURE OF INJURY. 
Identical with that occasioned by Lepidiota albohirta, Water. Stage 
If. larve reared at the laboratory entirely consumed the roots of cane 
plants growing in their breeding cages, and in many cases gnawed holes 
in the ‘‘sets.’’ 
