of Coleopterous Larva; and PiqicE. 31 



Found during the winter months in the dead wood of oaks and 

 other trees. The specimen from which the accompanying drawing 

 was made was found in the month of December, and although full- 

 grown at the time, remained two years before it assumed the pupa 

 state, from wliich, however, it soon turned into the perfect insect. 



Note. — I have very frequently met with another larva which very 

 closely resembles that here described, but insteadof beingof an uniform 

 pink colour above, it is spotted with that colour only ; possibly it is a 

 a mere variety, but I think it is the larva of Thanasimusformicarius. 



Telephorus rufus. Mull. 



Larva. Plate III. fig. 3. 



Head coriaceous, pitchy black, furnished with two steramata, one 

 on each side, close to the insertion of the antennse. Body soft, of a 

 dark brown colour, and very thickly covered with soft fine hairs, 

 giving it the appearance of velvet. 

 Length 74- lines. 



Head depressed, subquadrate, the basal half covered with a fine 

 pubescence, of the same velvet-like texture as the body ; the 

 anterior half smooth, ^w^eww^ with the basal joint short; se- 

 cond rather elongate, and containing two small processes partly 

 within the apex. Maxillte soft and fleshy, thickly covered with 

 hairs, especially on the inner side, which is bilobed. Maxil- 

 lary palpi 4-jointed, basal joint short ; second moderate and cy- 

 lindrical; third short and indistinct ; terminal slender and acute. 

 Mandibles long and acute, unidentate internally. 

 Body elongate, slightly depressed, the joints nearly equal in width, 

 (taken longitudinally of the insect,) the three first segments 

 each vdth two impressed fovete. Telum soft and unarmed, but 

 with a fleshy protuberance beneath, which is used as a proleg. 



3 a. The larva, magnified. 3 b. The under side of the head. 3 c. The pal- 

 piger. (Newm.) 3d. The antenna. 3 e. Apex of the same, more highly 

 magnified, showing the two processes. 3/. The mandible. 3 g. The 

 maxillae. 



This carnivorous larva is remarkable for having two processes 

 which spring from the second joint of the antennse instead of a sin- 

 gle joint, as is commonly the case in Coleopterous larvse. It is 

 found during the wdnter and spring months at the roots of grass and 

 in decayed wood ; it assumes the pupa stat'^. about the latter end of 

 April, and the perfect insect makes its appearance in May. 



Elicopis imfressus. Marsh. 

 Larva. Plate V. fig. 2. 

 Head, prothorax and telum coriaceous, and of a pitchy brown co- 



