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insectes se trouvent (selon lui) pendant la plus 

 grand chaleur du jour, ils courent dans le sable des 

 terrains peu cultives." "They produce a singular 

 sound resembling the utterance of the word xexe, 

 by which they are discovered in their lurking places." 

 The reputed larva of Pachymorpha6-guttata, (which 

 I cannot consider as a Carabideous larva) will be 

 found figured in Guerin's Magazine of Zoology. 

 It is probable that the larvae of the African species, 

 when known, will be found to vary considerably 

 from those of the East Indian Anthiadse. 



Sp. 12. Sycophanta. — Now a Calosomaof Weber. 

 Linneus states that at night they devour the larvse 

 of Lepidoptera ; I am inclined to think that they 

 are more destructive in the day time. The larvse 

 when taken, smell strongly, as of lamp oil. The 

 reader is referred to a valuable paper in the Ento- 

 mological Transactions, by Dr. Hermann Bur- 

 meister, on the anatomy of the larva of Calosoma 

 Sycophanta. 



Sp. 13. Buprestoides. — Schonherr, in his Sy- 

 nonyma Insectorum, has not attempted to say to 

 what genus this insect belongs, and from the concise 

 Latin description it is impossible to determine it 

 with any accuracy. 



Sp. 14. Fastigiatus. — Now an Aptinus of Bo- 



