Ixxiil, lxxiv] (CEE a5) 
1905, p. 172, that it is herbivorous is erroneous, and is due to 
a misunderstanding. 
“T have also for exhibition some larve and pupe of 
Mormolyce, together with a specimen of a Polyporus fungus 
split open to show the lenticular chamber excavated by the 
larva. The adults, male and female, are usually found resting 
on the under surface of these fungi, or on the tree trunk from 
which the fungus projects ; oviposition has not been witnessed, 
but I believe that only one egg (or at most two) is laid at a 
time, for I have not been able to find more than one larva in 
the chamber,* though on one occasion I took a newly-emerged 
adult from the surface of a fungus in which was hollowed out 
a chamber containing one larva. Access to the larval chamber 
is attained by an orifice so small that it is surprising that the 
newly-emerged beetle can squeeze through it to the exterior, this 
orifice is situated on the upper surface of the fungus. It will 
be seen that there are no features of particular interest about 
the external appearance either of larva or pupa; these pup 
do not show the elongation of the head and thorax character- 
istic of the adult. Overdyk, who gives a bionomical account 
of this species in Ned. Ent. Vereen, vol. i, 1857, states 
that the larve are predaceous. The larva and the pupa have 
been figured and described by Verhuell (Ann. des Sciences 
Naturelles, 1847).” 
Professor E. B. Poutron communicated the following note 
by Mr. A. H. Hamm, of the Hope Department, Oxford 
University Museum. ‘The observations extend and support 
those recorded by him in “Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1904,” 
p. lxxv. 
“The following observations made at Oxford during the 
present year, tend to confirm the opinion that Pveris rape 
chooses for prolonged rest, a surface upon which it will be 
concealed. Although only five individuals were observed, 
these had, without exception, selected a position of consider- 
able protective value. The first butterfly was seen near 
Cowley Marsh on May 7th, at about 4p.m. The afternoon 
* The short note on this species which I published in British Assoc. 
Reports, 1901, was largely based on information supplied to me by a native 
collector, and this information, I regret to say, was proved afterwards 
by my own observations to be inaccurate. 
