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amongst the Orthoptera, quite a number of species which, accord- 
ing to Dr. Sharp, are probably new, and their identification is 
unavoidably left for some future occasion. 
Some of the most remarkable Insects on Kina Dalu, 4200', 
were certain forms which lh\ Sharp considers to be coleopter- 
ous larvae probably of Li/c/des. 'fhey were constantly brought 
in by my men in handsful, and I collected them myself on the 
ground, on rotten pieces of wood, and on low shrubs. I'hese 
larvm resemble in many points certain larva which I collected 
on Dukit Timah, Singapore, and on Maxwell’s Hill, Perak, and 
which, according to Dr. Sharp, belong to another species of 
Lfirules. It is apparently this form from the Malay Peninsula 
which is figured by 0. .1. (Jahan, Xatueal Soienci:, Vol. VII 
(1898), p. 43, in an article on the carboniferous DrpeUis. Since, 
liowever, Gahan’a figure is not accompanied by a description and 
since, as far as I know, the larva from the Malay Peninsula has 
never been described, I have thought it advisable to giye the 
following description of it. 
I'lie animal is remarkably flat and leaf-like, only a few parts 
of its body exceeding 1 mm. in thickness, the greatly expanded 
lateral portions of the thorax being even thinner. The head is 
very small, I’o mm. across, and can be retracted within the cavity 
of the prothorax, and is always so in dead specimens. Plyes very 
small, black. Both maxillary and labial palps are cone-like struc- 
tures, with four and three joints respectively, the basal joint in 
each being very much broader than the distal joint. Mandibles 
small. The antennm are very short club-shaped bodies, about 
0T>8 mm. in length and 0*5 mm. in greatest thickness. There is 
a chitinous ring round the narrow base, distally followed by a 
crown-like chitinous structure, consisting of a broad ring from 
which four lobes arise lying close round the ‘club.’ In the living 
specimen, the antenna' often appear as if they themselves were 
retractile, but as at the slightest disturbance the entire head is 
withdrawn inside the tubular cavity of the prothorax, and the an- 
temim are so very minute, nothing definite could be ascertained. 
The prothorax is somewhat triangular, about twice as broad as 
long ; both mesothorax and metathorax are nearly three times 
as broad as long, and the posterior border of the metathorax is 
deeply concave. Of tlie abdomen, nine segments are visible ex- 
