Four species of Lycoperdlnae inhabit Sweden, and two of 

 them France ; but one only has been discovered in Great Bri- 

 tain, the L. Bovistce, which receives its names from the vegetable 

 on which it feeds. They are found in puiF-balls, from Sep- 

 tember to June, on commons and in fir-plantations at Coombe 

 and Norwood. The Rev. G. T. Rudd and Mr. Samouelle 

 once met with it in abundance near Kimpton ; and the be- 

 ginning of last October Mr. Newman took a considerable 

 number at Birch-wood, and he remarked that they made their 

 egress through the hole in the centre at the top of the puff- 

 ball. 



The horny internal maxillary lobe and the dilated and 

 curiously ciliated external one are very different to any that 

 I am acquainted with. Lycoperdina, like Coccinella, has 

 four-jointed tarsi, and it is nearly related to Endomychus and 

 Eumorphus (an extra-European group), one species of which, 

 from Sumatra, (figured by Dumeril and also by Olivier under 

 the name of jG. marginatus,) is a most remarkable insect, with 

 the anterior tibiae emarginated, not unlike the Carabidae, and 

 the elytra have a broad dilated margin, so that in fact it 

 assumes somewhat the figure of that still more wonderful in- 

 sect the Mormolyce jphyllodes of Hagenbach, which is a native 

 of the neighbouring island of Java. 



We do not think it probable that the oeconomy of Eumor- 

 phus and Mormolyce is the same, and consequently there 

 may be no affinity between them ; but as it is difficult in 

 arrangement to say where such anomalies ought to be placed, 

 we cannot but think that it would be convenient and even na- 

 tural to put Mormolyce at the beginning of the Coleoptera, 

 and Eumorphus at the end. 



The genus Dasycerus, which from its triarticulate tarsi has 

 been consigned to this group, is more nearly related I think 

 to Latridius (p. 311.), which has probably only three jointed 

 tarsi, and with which it was at first associated by Mons. La- 

 treille. 



The Puff-ball or bull-fist represented with the insect is the 

 Li/coperdon Bovista Linn., in which it lives. 



