BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 
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remarkable resemblance of these cocoons, when in a quiescent 
state, to the castings of some of the large wood-eating lamellicorn 
beetles, they are very easily passed over. 
When the larva is full grown it forms a concave lid over the 
top of the opening, and remains on the ground generally under 
logs or fallen timber until it is ready to emerge. 
Like nearly all the members of this genus the beetles feed upon 
the foliage of the young Eucalypts. 
' The beetle is about 4 lines in length, reddish chocolate-brown, 
with irregular black blotches upon the thorax and upper half of 
the elytra; thorax and wing cases very rugose, the former very 
finely punctured; the latter deeply ribbed with parallel stripe, 
closely and finely punctured. 
Hab. — Not common in the neighbourhood of Sydney, but 
plentiful in the Shoalhaven District. 
Epilachna 26-punctata, Dejean. 
Eggs pale yellow, placed in patches of thirty or forty upon the 
underside of the leaves; elongated and pointed at the apex; 
having a beautiful granulated appearance under the lens. The 
larva on emergence and after each moult pale }^ellow. 
Larva short and stout, 5 lines in length and 3 in breadth, pale 
yellow. Dorsal view : head completely hidden by the folds of the 
thorax; 1st thoracic segment covered with a blackish patch from 
which spring up four black spines, each of them with several finer 
radiating spines growing from their sides; white at the tips; 2nd 
and third thoracic segments with a blackish patch on either side, 
with two similar feathery spines springing out from them; with 
another black patch on either side just above the legs out of 
which a single feathered spine grows; the following six abdominal 
segments have a double feathered spine in the patch on the centre 
of the back, with two smaller blotches on either side, each 
producing a spine, 7th abdominal segment bearing 4 spines, the 
8th and anal one two. 
Ventral side : pale yellow; head small, black and rounded 
behind, elongated towards the jaws, which are short and toothed; 
