166 STATES OF INSECTS. ( Larva.) 
form amongst the apterous tribes; I must therefore 
leave this without a denomination. Perhaps the larva 
of Hispa or Alurnus, when known, will throw light upon 
this subject. The larva of Endomychus agrees with that 
of Coccinella. 
There are very few known larve that approach to a 
true Thysanuriform type in this order: that most cele- 
brated is the one supposed to belong to Meloe ; but the 
claim of this to be so considered, is, as we have seen, 
rather dubious. Should this point at last be satisfactorily 
ascertained, it will probably carry with it the whole tribe 
of vesicatory beetles. But even this animal in its general 
structure is anopluriform: the only circumstance that 
gives it any analogy to the Thysanura being its anal setee. 
Mr. William MacLeay is inclined to regard some of the 
larvee of the Malacodermi Latr., but which of them he 
does not state, as probably belonging to the tribe in 
question*. ‘Those of Lampyris and of Telephorus, as de- 
scribed and figured by De Geer”, appear to me inter- 
mediate between the Anopluriform and Chilopodiform 
Types: they have no anal setiform or styliform appen- 
dages, their mandibule are falcate, and their habits seem 
carnivorous. 
Examples of Chilopodiform coleopterous larvee are 
more numerous, Of this description are those of Gy- 
rinus, Cicindela, Carabus, and Staphylinus. 'That of the 
first, indeed, appears to be the most perfectly Scolopen- 
driform of any yet known; yet the gills or respiratory 
laminee, a pair of which issues from each abdominal seg- 
ment, and two pair from the last*, prove that there is 
* Hor, Entomolog. 465. > De Geer iv. 66. ¢. i. f. 5—8. 
* Shid. #. xiii, f. 16--19. A very singular larva, which preys upon 
