ami nod wore too decomposed to allow of the connexion with the first seven 

 abdominal stigmata being carefully examined, bin the communicating 

 tracheae are certainly very small. The writer lias found thai the presence 

 of the posterior stigmata did not o.-capc ( Juilding's attention. The objects 



Legs are entirely absent, for the most ventral series of thoracic tuber- 

 cles represents them only in position and is probabh not homologous; 

 legs appear in one of Blanchard's plates (17), but the originals are really 

 bristles. 



Description of Pupa. 



The general features of this arc to be seen in the drawing (PI. I. 

 3a, 3b). Rostrum extending to the base of the second pair ot legs, 

 with two transverse tubercular elevations above base of antennae, 

 and two small tubercles below ; posterior part of prothorax asperate at 

 sides; posterior legs covered by elytra and win»s. the former widely 

 separated and ending in a blunt process, the latter almost meeting in the 

 middle line. 



Length, 18-20 lines. 



The immature insect is brownish black with the following parts 

 brown or testaceous ; the apex of the rostrum, the head and antenna' ; 

 the anterior border, and some patches at the sides of the thorax; the 



on disc; the apical half of the "iibi;e and the tarsi. 



Guilding (3), Schomburgk (11), and Mi-s < )rm> -rod (I'd). According 

 to Schomburgk they seldom attack full-grown canes, but only those 

 newly stuck into the ground. Mi.-- Ormerod received specimens 



Jlhijucliophorus Zin 



Rhynchophoru* cm 



See also (13, 1>. 2 



