Extracts from the Miiiute-Book of the Linnemi Societij. 511 



Larva segnis, corpus pectinesque arenulis tegens, man- 

 dibulisque sub lateribus reconditis prœdam expectans. 

 PuUks capite majori. Pupa : corpus tlavescens, cur- 

 vum, obesum, lanuginosum, abdomine livido irrorato, 

 lateribus prominulis, bullatis : lineâ dorsali nigra. Ca- 

 put hirsutum. MandibuUe ferrugineœ. Antcnnœ supra 

 oculos ad pectus retîexœ, capitulo evanido. OcuU ni- 

 gricaiites, bilobati. FoUiculus arenulis colo anali mire 

 contextus, cuteque pellucido intùs tectus. 



Figures of the eggs, repagula, and larvœ, accom- 

 panied the Communication. 



By the term Repagula (Iiarriers), Mr. Lansdown 

 Guilding designates certain attendants on the eggs, 

 which he conceives to be without analogies in the ani- 

 mal creation. "They are curiously placed in circles, 

 and always on the extremity of a branch, so that nothing 

 can approach the brood : nor can the young ramble 

 abroad till they have acquired strengtli to resist the 

 ants and other insect enemies." The female " may be 

 seen expelling from her ovary these natural bodies with 

 as much care as her real eggs." 



To the description of the egg of Xylocopa Teredo 

 (Linn. Trans, vol. xiv. p. 314.) is to be added " apici- 

 bus rotundatis : " and to that of the larva of Horia ma- 

 culata (lb. p, 316.) " corpus spinulis omnincN indistinc- 

 tis exasperatum. Trachea fuscaî. Mandibuhe ferru- 

 sinete." Of the latter insect he states that several va- 

 rieties exist, which will perhaps require hereafter to be 

 regarded as so many species. The one figured [Ann. 

 Trans, vol. xiv. tab. 8, has the " frons plana, ocello infe- 

 rior! in fossula subovata posito :" in another from South 

 America, "■' porca elevata, bipartita, flexuosa, ocellos 

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