790 General Notes. [July, 
positors are endophytes—a conclusion strengthened by their ten- 
dency to grease, and explaining perhaps our ignorance thus far of 
their larve. There would also seem to be some correlation be- 
tween this puncturing and thrusting ovipositor and the produced 
and specialized clypeus, and perhaps also with the large claw on 
front tibia; for these characters are most pronounced in the 
female, and doubtless bear upon habit.— C. V. Riley. 
INSECTS AFFECTING STORED Ricze.—In a lot of damaged rice 
from the Chinese Centennial exhibit recently submitted to us by 
the director of the National Museum, we found the following in- 
sects: Numerous larve of Tenebrio molitor ; larvee of Tenebrio 
and whose earlier states have hitherto remained unknown. 
HYPERMETAMORPHOSES OF THE MELoip&.—lIn treating fer 
transformations of the blister-beetles (vide Am. NAT., XH, p. 2° 
we endeavored to conform to the existing nomenclature 
characterizing the different forms which the larva presents, an 
employed the following terms: 
Ist larva TZriungulin (from the egg). 
Carabidoid stage (after first molt). 
2d larva < Scarabeidoid stage (after second molt). 
timate stage (after third molt). 
Coarctate larva (after fourth molt). 
3d larva Third larva (after fifth molt). 
Triungulin = first larval stage. 
Caraboid == second larval stage. 
Scarabeoid = third and fourth larval stages. 
oarctate » = fifth larval stage. 
Scolytoi = sixth larval stage. 
: ing five 
This nomenclature fully represents the facts, there being 
distinct forms of larva, the difference in the third and fourth stab a 
