SAMOUELLE e 



the third volume of his Insecta Suecica, considers it 

 merely a variety, or the female of his Lcma subspi- 

 nosa, an insect not uncommon on various shrubs 

 round London ; bat the slightest comparison will 

 soon convince the student of its being a good and 

 a well-marked specks. 



Many rare and local insects have been taken from 

 time to time, in the wood near Bexley ; but we must 

 caution the collector, who may be a stranger to this 

 part of Kent, to be careful where he walks, as in this 

 wood there are numerous pits, some of considerable 

 depth, the mouths of which are small, and over- 

 grown by brambles which soon give way, and ren- 

 der it somewhat dangerous collecting. Kunze, in 

 his Entomologische Fragmente, Halle, 1818, has 

 separated the species of this genus from the Crioceris 

 of Fabricius, and the Auchenia of Marsham. Au- 

 chenia has been established by Illiger, and adopted 

 by most writers as a genus of quadrupeds of the lama 

 kind, this name must therefore be rejected in en- 

 tomology. 



We may observe that the insects of this genus, 

 when beaten into the net, simulate death, by lying 

 on their backs, the antennae falling on their breasts, 

 and the drawing up of their legs. 



