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Take for instance the placing in the position the genus Loricera, 

 which according- to Dr. Lecente's classification stands in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Blethisa under the subfamily of Carabidae, while by 

 G-emminger and Harold (see Catalogus p. 210) it is placed between 

 Panagaeus and Chlaenius (Leconte's subfamily Harpalidae). Now 

 if the larva of Loricera resembles more that of the first than that of 

 the second subfamily, the species should be placed accordingly. 



Further by raising larvae from males and females of the same 

 species, different species ba,sed on very slight differences might be 

 united, and by a cross-copulation between allied species we possi- 

 bly could also diminish the number of our species ; the first method 

 may be adopted with Pterostichus, Harpalus etc., the second with 

 Cicindelae. 



I take the opportunity to suggest a plan for raising Cicindeli- 

 dae which may be executed very easily without great cost by 

 many collectors. 



Take. a box containing several square feet and of about two feet 

 in depth ; put six inches of earth at the bottom, then fill it with 

 sand ; place it in the garden, and put on it a cover of very fine 

 wire-cloth one foot high ; in the middle put a flat tin-pan with 

 water and some pieces of turf around, and 1 have no^ doubt, Cicin- 

 delidae may be raised. 



To make the study of larvae somewhat easier, we shall bring in 

 the Bulletin some excerpts of the literature on this subject, as 

 well as a list of the described larvae of N. A. Coleoptera and we 

 hope to be assisted herein by other gentlemen interested in the 

 matter. 



Last summer I used more care in searching for larvae, than in 

 collecting imagines and the following excerpts of my diary will 

 show, with what success. 



I had no cages, but obtained a dozen fruit-jars of glass and sev- 

 eral small tin boxes such as are sold in the stores filled with pep- 

 per, cinnamon and other spices. I put in every jar or box some 

 earth, dry leaves and pieces of rotten wood and covered them with 

 mosquito-netting. In each vessel was of course but one larva. 

 1. About the first of August I found in a hemlock log, several 

 Clinidium conjugens with a few thin, small, lively larvae, which 



