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CUPEOIDvE. 



of the central line, which is raised, much wider abruptly just 

 behind apex, and produced at the sides 

 in front in a sharp angle ; scutellum 

 well marked ; elytra long, parallel-sided, 

 rounded at the apex, with the shoulders 

 well marked, and with rows of large 

 square punctures, the interstices being- 

 more or less carinate, the 4th and 6th 

 strongly so ; legs short and not stout, 

 the anterior tibiae slightly curved ; under- 

 side squamose. 



Length 12-15 mm. 



Burma : Ruby Mines (Doherty) ; 

 Eastern Siberia (tioM-y) ; Japan 

 (Lewis). 



After careful examination I can find 

 no difference between the Burmese 

 specimens and those of Mr. Lewis from 

 Japan ; the sculpture of the elytra is 

 Cupes clathratiis. slightly different, but this varies in 



specimens belonging to the same species. 

 Of the two specimens taken by Mr. Doherty, the one which 

 I believe to be the male is smaller, with a small clear space on the 

 apical segment of the venter, and with the temples projecting 

 laterally only as far as the level of the eyes. In the other, which 

 is probably the female, the temples plainly project laterally 

 beyond the eyes. 



Pascoe's type of C. ocularis in the British Museum Collection 

 measures 6 lines ; in his description he gives its length as 

 5 lines. 



Notes on the Life-History of Tricondyla and Collyris. 



On page 275 I have said that " I cannot find that anything is 

 known of the life-history of Tricondyla and Derocrania. Just as 

 this book is going to press the last volume of the Zoological 

 Record has been published, and 1 find that I have missed a paper 

 by Dr. van Leeuwen in the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, June 

 1910, pp. 18-40, plates 2 & 3, entitled " Ueber die Lebensweise 

 und die Entwicklung einiger holzbohrenden Cicindeliden-Larven," 

 and containing the life-histories of Collyris bonelli and tubercidata 

 and of Tricondyla cyanea. We have no space to enter into the 

 details of this paper, further than to state the remarkable similarity 

 of the Tricondyla larva to that of Collyris : the fifth abdominal 

 segment is humped in the same way and has the three small 

 hooks on each side, and the insect has the same habit of making 

 burrows in the stems of the coffee- shrub and seizing its prey at 

 the entrance of these. It is, of course, larger, being 20 millim. 

 in length, but otherwise there is very little difference. 



