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LIFE-HISTORIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA. 
Part III. 
By Walter W. Froggatt. 
This paper contains my contribution to the study of the 
habits of our Coleoptera for the season 1894-5, and is really a 
continuation of previous notes on this subject; for the observa- 
tions of one year run into the next, and some of the insects have 
to be watched for over twelve months before the larva can be 
correlated with the perfect insect. 
As before, I am indebted to the Rev. Thos. Blackburn for the 
determination of some of my beetles, and to Mr. R. T. Baker for 
the verification of the botanical names of some of their food 
plants. 
Aphanasium australe, Boisd. 
Larva short and stout, pale yellow, with well-defined abdominal 
segments: jaws black, and truncated at the tips, mouth parts 
raised upon a slightly lobed projection, the basal portion of the 
head forming an encircling fold, slightly overhanging in front; on 
the lower edge of the forehead are four irregular yellow patches; 
thoracic segments narrow, legs small, short, ferruginous; on the 
dorsal surface the first five segments flattened, of regular size, 
produced into an elongate oval, slightly impressed in the centre 1 , 
with a patch of reddish-brown hairs on either side, 6th and 7th 
rather larger and rounder, 8th small, 9 th also short, terminating 
in a short obtuse point; on the ventral side the segments are 
comparatively flat. 
The larvse feed upon the stems of Hakea acicularis, growing 
in the neighbourhood of Sydney, a number always boring into the 
shrub at one place, causing the branches to wither and snap off- 
perhaps nearly a dozen grubs will feed in a single branch gnawing 
